Nelja vapautta ( engl. Four Freedoms ) olivat nelja Yhdysvaltain presidentti Franklin D. Rooseveltin vuonna 1941 esittelemaa vapautta , jotka hanen mukaansa kuuluivat kaikille maailman ihmisille. Roosevelt esitteli vapaudet 6. tammikuuta 1941 Kansakunnan tila -puheessaan Yhdysvaltain kongressille . Vapaudet ovat:

1. Sananvapaus (Freedom of speech and expression)
2. Uskonnonvapaus (Freedom of worship)
3. Oikeus riittavaan elintasoon (Freedom from want)
4. Oikeus elaa ilman pelkoa (Freedom from fear)

Rooseveltin esittelemat nelja vapautta toimivat osaltaan innoittajina Rooseveltin vaimon Eleanor Rooseveltin ajamalle Ihmisoikeuksien yleismaailmallinen julistukselle . ^lahde?

Roosevelt puhui Neljasta vapaudesta ensimmaisen kerran Kansakunnan tila -puheessaan seuraavasti:

≫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.≫
(Franklin D. Roosevelt, ote Kansakunnan tila -puheesta, 6 tammikuuta 1941)

• FDR's "Four Freedoms" Speech: Freedom by the Fireside (englanniksi)
• The "Four Freedoms" - Franklin D. Roosevelt's Address to Congress (englanniksi)

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The Four Freedoms speech (englanniksi)

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