Four Freedoms

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It is remarkable to see Kahn working though his ideas for the Franklin D. Roosevelt Four Freedoms Park in New York City, a truly unified work of architecture, landscape and art.

From The Wall Street Journal

Humanitarian organisation Save Ukraine has managed to rescue at least 95 kidnapped Ukrainian children and will receive the international Four Freedoms Award in the Netherlands in recognition of its achievements.

From BBC

Kennan’s outlook should be seen as related to FDR’s “Four Freedoms” speech, defining what we were fighting for in World War II, and also to Eleanor Roosevelt’s role in establishing the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948.

From Salon

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