"Stars Hide Your Fires, Let Not Light See My Black And Deep Desires."
Saturday, October 18, 2014
THE RIGHTS OF HUMANITY
“
NECESSITOUS MEN ARE NOT FREE MEN.”
President
Roosevelt's January 11, 1944 message to the Congress of the
United States on the State of the Union
"We cannot be content
if some fraction of our people—whether it be one-third or
one-fifth or one-tenth is ill-fed, ill-clothed, ill-housed, and
insecure."
"“Necessitous men are not free men.” People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made."
It is our duty to lay the plans
and determine the strategy for the winning of a lasting
peace and the establishment of an American standard of
living higher than ever before known. We cannot be content,
no matter how high that general standard of living may be,
if some fraction of our people—whether it be one-third or
one-fifth or one-tenth—
is ill-fed, ill-clothed, ill-housed, and
insecure.
This Republic had its beginning, and
grew to its present strength, under the protection of
certain inalienable political rights—among them the right of
free speech, free press, free worship, trial by jury,
freedom from unreasonable searches and seizures. They were
our rights to life and liberty.