A Timeline of Human Rights
(Under Construction)
January 6,
1941
Roosevelt delivers "Four Freedoms" speech
Freedom of Speech and Expression; Freedom of Religion; Freedom from Want; Freedom from Fear. The Four Freedoms were expanded on in FDR’s Second Bill of Rights
From the full speech at American Rhetoric
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.