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Four Freedoms by Norman Rockwell

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"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 world 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."
- President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1941 State of the Union address to the U.S. Congress

Inspired by FDR's "Four Freedoms" speech, American artist Norman Rockwell made four oil paintings also called the Four Freedoms.  Completed in 1943 and published in the Saturday Evening Post, they are Freedom of Speech (a man dissenting at a town council meeting), Freedom of Worship (Jews, Protestants, and Catholics worshiping together), Freedom from Want (a family eating a large Thanksgiving dinner together), and Freedom from Fear (parents tucking their children into bed as they hold a newspaper describing the Blitz).  This propaganda poster at the NAAFI canteen at the Yorkshire Air Museum (former RAF Elvington) in York, England combines the Four Freedoms under the slogan "OURS...to fight for," a warning that anyone who does not fight for freedom risks losing it to tyranny.
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1816x2817px 1.15 MB
Make
NIKON
Model
COOLPIX S9700
Shutter Speed
10/50 second
Aperture
F/4.0
Focal Length
6 mm
ISO Speed
800
Date Taken
Aug 5, 2015, 7:48:36 AM
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