Four Freedoms / Eleanor Roosevelt and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights

Four Freedoms, also, Eleanor Roosevelt and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. . , Four Freedoms , In January 1941 as Axis powers launched alarmingly successful assaults on three continents, FDR took the occasion of his eighth State of the Union address to warn Americans that their own way of life was in peril. In the future world, FDR envisioned four fundamental human freedoms would prevail everywhere: freedom of speech and expression, freedom of worship, freedom from want, and freedom from fear., The four freedoms portion of this State of the Union brought together the most important values of his entire presidency. Although FDR did not live to see the end of World War II, his vision was carried on by the First Lady, Eleanor Roosevelt, a fearless champion of human rights., Eleanor Roosevelt and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights , In December 1945, Eleanor Roosevelt would go on to lead the drafting of one of the twentieth century's most important documents, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, whose tenets are the ideals articulated in the Four Freedoms speech. The General Assembly of the United Nations adopted the groundbreaking declaration without dissent on December 10, 1948., Freedom of Speech and Expression | Freedom of Worship , Freedom from Want | Freedom from Fear.