Teachable Moment: The Four Freedoms

Freedom From Want, by Norman Rockwell

The Four Freedoms were goals articulated by United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt on January 6, 1941. In an address known as the Four Freedoms speech (technically the 1941 State of the Union address), he proposed four fundamental freedoms that people "everywhere in the world" ought to enjoy: freedom speech, freedom of worship, freedom from want, freedom from fear. (Wikipedia)
Looking at these Rockwell images with 21st century eyes, we see only one demographic, no diversity. In our time, these four freedoms extend to all our citizens as well as our understanding of worldwide human rights.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

The Four Freedoms

delivered 6 January, 1941 (photo of FDR in 1936)

http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/fdrthefourfreedoms.htm