What Harry Taylor meant with his speech (in other words)

tocqueville

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Fri Apr-07-06 10:35 AM
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What Harry Taylor meant with his speech (in other words)

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.''

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On Jan. 6, 1941, President Franklin D. Roosevelt delivered his State of the Union speech to Congress. Near the end, Roosevelt described the need to protect four freedoms in the world.

It was this portion of the speech that inspired Norman Rockwell whose Four Freedoms, accompanied by essays by famous authors of the time, were published in weekly sequence beginning Feb. 20, 1943, in The Saturday Evening Post. http://www.burlingtonfreepress.com/specialnews/Townmeeting/gevalt.htm

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Fri Apr-07-06 10:51 AM
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1. Compare the reaction of the people on the speakers' right

poor woman looks like she's getting a rectal exam

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spanone

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Fri Apr-07-06 10:52 AM
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2. Jeez, look at the woman next to her, she'd like to take him out!

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SammyWinstonJack

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Fri Apr-07-06 11:05 AM
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4. Yea really

Woman #1 :wow: Woman #2 :grr:

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MrPrax

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Fri Apr-07-06 10:56 AM
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3. Is the picture

Edited on Fri Apr-07-06 10:58 AM by MrPrax

the original or has it been cropped for historical purposes...

Save Freedom of Speech is a color lithograph created in 1942 by Norman Rockwell and published in the Saturday Evening Post as part of a series illustrating the "Four Freedoms." The aim of the series was to promote the buying of war bonds by Americans during World War II. It depicts a man in a work shirt standing to voice an opinion at town meeting, while others look on. The lithograph measures 27.75 x 20 inches.

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