The Four Freedoms

On 6 January 1941 Franklin Delano Roosevelt gave his State of the Union address to Congress in which he declared what have come to be known as The Four Freedoms:

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.

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

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

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

On Guy Fawkes Day 2008 the fight for the soul of the Democratic Party begins in earnest.  Whether Barack Obama is defeated or not, the real work will be the rebuilding the party, ejecting the current leadership, and returning it to the populist party America needs it to be.  A group of activists has built a platform for this movement. 

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