"FOUR FREEDOMS"

07/01/16 15:06

"The Nation" is a magazine with a history going back into the Nineteenth Century. Their most recent issue has an article titled: "Why Franklin Roosevelt's 'Four Freedoms' Are Still Relevant Today" This quote of Eleanor Roosevelt from her newspaper column of January 5,1941, is shown at the top of that article:

"America is not a pile of goods, more luxury, more comforts, a better telephone system, a greater number of cars. America is a dream of greater justice and opportunity for the average man and, if we cannot obtain it, all our other achievements amount to nothing."

Reading "The Nation" may be worth some time. Many libraries carry it.

For those who never knew or who have forgotten here are the 'Four Freedoms' that Franklin Roosevelt mentioned in his State of the Union message in 1941:

Freedom of speech and expression;

Freedom of worship;

Freedom from want; and

Freedom from fear.