On January 6, 1941, a mere 11 months before Pearl Harbor would be bombed and America would enter World War 2, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt gave his State of the Union speech. Later it became known as the “Four Freedoms Speech,” because near the end of his address, Roosevelt upheld “four essential human freedoms”—
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- freedom of speech and expression,
- freedom of religion,
- freedom from want, and
- freedom from fear.
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Norman Rockwell helped immortalize each one of these ideas with images that have made indelible impressions on American’s minds and in their emotions. Rockwell’s paintings now are in the public domain. Here is each one.
top image credit: Norman Rockwell in around 1921 — Rockwell was born in 1894.
