Four Freedoms
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt's 1941 State of the Union Address, mentioning 4 freedoms that everyone should enjoy: freedom of speech, of worship, from want, and from fear
Wikidata facts
- Main subject
- freedom from fear
- Creator
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Image
- CongressRoosevelt1941.jpg
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- Commons category
- Four Freedoms
- topic's main category
- Category:Four Freedoms
- publication date
- 1941-01-06
- title
- 1941 State of the Union address
- on focus list of Wikimedia project
- WikiProject Human rights
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Encyclopedic overview
Four Freedoms, a series of 1943 paintings by Norman Rockwell honoring Franklin D. Roosevelt's Four Freedoms, meant to describe the freedoms for which allied nations fought in World War II.Engraving of the Four Freedoms at the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial in Washington, D.C.
The Four Freedoms were goals articulated by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt on Monday, January 6, 1941. In an address known as the Four Freedoms speech (technically the 1941 State of the Union address), he proposed four fundamental freedoms that people "everywhere in the world" ought to enjoy:
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