In January, 1941, US President Franklin D. Roosevelt announced his vision for the world, “a world attainable in our own time and generation,” and founded upon four essential human freedoms:
freedom of speech and expression,
freedom of worship,
freedom from want, and,
freedom from fear.
His words are still relevant today.
Here’s what he said.
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“In the future days, which we seek to make secure, we look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms.
The first is freedom of speech and expression — everywhere in the world.
The second is freedom of every person to worship God in his own way — everywhere in the world.
The third is freedom from want — which, translated into world terms, means economic understandings which will secure to every nation a healthy peacetime life for its inhabitants — everywhere in the world.
The fourth is freedom from fear — which, translated into world terms, means a world-wide reduction of armaments to such a point and in such a thorough fashion that no nation will be in a position to commit an act of physical aggression against any neighbor– anywhere in the world.
That is no vision of a distant millennium. It is a definite basis for a kind of world attainable in our own time and generation.”
– Franklin D. Roosevelt
Martin Rutte
