When President Franklin D. Roosevelt made his State of the Union Speech in 1941, the world was fast falling apart. War was engulfing the globe, and the U.S. would soon be dragged into the conflict.
But desperate times do not mean that hope and ideas have to wait. They were needed more than ever to help chart the course. Roosevelt, in his State of the Union, talked about the Four Freedoms. The third of these was Freedom from Want. Roosevelt expanded on this concept in a 1943 speech when he said:
‘‘A sound world agricultural program will depend upon world political security, while that security will in turn be greatly strengthened if each country can be assured of the food it needs. Freedom from want and freedom from fear go hand in hand.”
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