Four Freedoms

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Franklin D. Roosevelt, in one of his most important speeches, committed himself to “the four freedoms”: freedom of speech, freedom of worship, freedom from want and freedom from fear.

From Washington Post

It figured prominently in a famous speech delivered by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1941, as the world faced the onslaught of Nazi Germany, in which he described the essential liberties that America stood for in what became known as the “Four Freedoms Speech”: freedom of speech, freedom of worship, freedom from want and freedom from fear.

From Washington Post

For example, Rockwell’s Four Freedoms paintings from 1943 were inspired by President Franklin Roosevelt’s address to Congress—which actually have become a new subject in contemporary art, with the group Four Freedoms Coalition.

From Slate

Brothers, 41, who works on administering immigrant justice grants with the Four Freedoms Fund, says she understands why closures of legacy places affect Seattleites so viscerally.

From Seattle Times

In an effort to keep international attention on the protests — and, more specifically, to pressure the United Nations to remove Iran from its Commission on the Status of Women — the activist/artist collective For Freedoms, working with a female-leadership-focused NGO and a loose coalition of prominent Iranian women, recently mounted a group show called “Eyes on Iran” in Franklin D. Roosevelt Four Freedoms State Park, directly across the water from the U.N. building.

From New York Times