{"id":38,"date":"2014-12-04T22:48:58","date_gmt":"2014-12-04T22:48:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/integrations.pressbooks.network\/openedreader\/chapter\/the-four-freedoms\/"},"modified":"2019-11-06T21:33:18","modified_gmt":"2019-11-06T21:33:18","slug":"the-four-freedoms","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/integrations.pressbooks.network\/openedreader\/chapter\/the-four-freedoms\/","title":{"raw":"Franklin D. Roosevelt, “The Four Freedoms Speech”","rendered":"Franklin D. Roosevelt, “The Four Freedoms Speech”"},"content":{"raw":"Read the article at\u00a0https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Four_Freedoms<\/a>\n\nBackground<\/strong>\n\nThe four freedoms were first\u00a0declared\u00a0by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR) on January 6, 1941, in his State of the Union address. These freedoms known specifically as the freedom of speech, freedom of worship, freedom from want, and freedom from fear are rights that every person everywhere has the right\u00a0to enjoy.\n\nFDR\u2019s proclamation of these freedoms\u00a0broke the non-interventionist tradition that had been held in the United States since World War I and propelled the United States to participate in World War II when it was started (just 11 months after these remarks). \u00a0Everyone deserved these freedoms and the United States\u2019 had a responsibility to help secure them. \u00a0His speech proclaiming these freedoms was key in giving vision to the United Nations many years later, but more immediately\u00a0it provided a rationale for\u00a0America's involvement in the war.\n\nKey Points\u00a0<\/strong>\n\nIn the speech, he says,\n\n\u201cIn the future days, which we seek to make secure, we look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms.\n\nThe first is freedom of speech and expression\u2014everywhere in the world.\n\nThe second is freedom of every person to worship God in his own way\u2014everywhere in the world.\n\nThe third is freedom from want\u2014which, translated into world terms, means economic understandings which will secure to every nation a healthy peacetime life for its inhabitants\u2014everywhere in the world.\n\nThe fourth is freedom from fear\u2014which, 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\u2014anywhere in the world.\n\nThat is no vision of a distant millennium. It is a definite basis for a kind of world attainable in our own time and generation. That kind of world is the very antithesis of the so-called new order of tyranny which the dictators seek to create with the crash of a bomb.\"\u2014Franklin D. Roosevelt, excerpted from the State of the Union Address to the Congress, January 6, 1941\n\nDiscussion Questions\u00a0<\/strong>\n
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  1. What impact did FDR's Four Freedoms have on the open movement?<\/li>\n\t
  2. How are the Four Freedoms still influencing the open movement?<\/li>\n\t
  3. Are those who do not support open ideas practicing a form of tyranny?<\/li>\n\t
  4. What, if any, is the economic freedom that open provides?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\nAdditional\u00a0Resources<\/strong>\n