Rockwell's Response
THE FOUR FREEDOMS
delivered by Franklin Delano Roosevelt, on January 6, 1941
Shortly after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, Roosevelt lead our Nation on a fight to protect our freedoms. The United States of America would join the Allied Forces against the Nazi Dictatorship. Knowing that many lives would be lost, the President gave the speech of his life.
Every citizen of the USA would see and understand the seriousness of this war. These silent paintings hit the Nation as hard, if not harder, than Roosevelt's radio address.
In the future days which we seek to make secure, we look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms.
The first is freedom of speech and expression --everywhere in the world.
Freedom of Speech
The second is freedom of every person to worship God in his own way-- everywhere in the world.
Freedom of Worship
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.
Freedom from Want
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.
Freedom from Fear
