Roosevelt’s “Four Freedoms”

[pokerfan]

Via FOK News...

Answer: No snark here: take five minutes and watch this extraordinary vignette from American history – an FDR inauguration of 60 years ago, in which he declared “The Four Freedoms” filmed, in perfect color, by his son-in-law. You’ll see everybody from his son Jimmy in military uniform, walking him to the podium, to the first lady, to Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes in a judicial cap that makes him look like a French magistrate. The audio of the speech is here.

http://foknewschannel.com/snappy-headlines-for-april-25

[napoleon_in_rags]

1. Wow, thanks for that!

Love the seconds of him speaking. Look at those head movements, its like is every spoken word is a pen stroke, written boldy on the page of history. They just don't seem to make them like that anymore.

[pokerfan]

3. yep

In the future days, which we seek to make secure, we look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms.

o The first is freedom of speech and expression—everywhere in the world.

o The second is freedom of every person to worship God in his own way—everywhere in the world.

o The third is freedom from want—which, translated into world terms, means economic understandings which will secure to every nation a healthy peacetime life for its inhabitants—everywhere in the world.

o The fourth is freedom from fear—which, 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—anywhere in the world.

That 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.

[Rhiannon12866]

2. K&R!

Thanks so much for posting this! Spectacular! :woohoo: :patriot:

[Brickbat]

4. Great stuff.

[Uncle Joe]

6. That was the tragedy of the McCarthy Era as it threatened at least two of those

listed freedoms.

[ck4829]

5. The only way we can 'compete' with countries that do not have these four fundamental freedoms

Is to lose them ourselves.

Just remember that.

K&R.

[freshwest]

7. Here is FDR's Second Bill of Rights. We need it to fight the GOP.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt proposed a Second Bill of Rights in a speech on January 11, 1944. This was an Economic Bill of Rights, designed to stop the kind of fascism we are facing now.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UwUL9tJmypI&feature=related

Shorter and clearer:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=effDfpKYcVo&NR=1

And the union version:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rP4H6tVBdmc&feature=related

Take your pick.

[pokerfan]

8. thank you

:hi:

[hifiguy]

9. Where have you gone, Franklin Roosevelt?

Our nation turns its lonely eyes to you....

Truly there were once were giants on the earth.