Roosevelt gives “Four Freedoms” speech

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Lucas Paul Richert (University of Saskatchewan)

The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 3.2.3: American (US) Writing and Culture: The Early Twentieth-century , 1900-1945.
Vol. editors: J. Michael Duvall (College of Charleston), Emory Elliott (University of California, Riverside), Dale Enggass (University of Utah), Matthew Hofer (University of New Mexico), Stephen E. Meats (Pittsburg State University), Tony Papanikolas (San Jose State University), Justin Parks (UiT - The Arctic University of Norway), Nick Selby (University of East Anglia)

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Politics

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Date of occurrence 1941-01-06

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United States (Location)

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On 6 January, President Roosevelt delivered his ‘Four Freedoms’ declaration during his State of the Union Address. In it, he declared that people around the world had the freedom of speech and religion as well as the freedom from want and fear. To ensure that peoples of the world had a right to such freedoms Roosevelt boldly proposed“a world-wide reduction of armaments” so that“no nation will be in a position to commit an act of physical aggression against any neighbour anywhere in the world.”

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Citation: Richert, Lucas Paul. "Roosevelt gives “Four Freedoms” speech". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 01 November 2008 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/stopics.php?rec=true&UID=5619, accessed 07 May 2024.]

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