There should be not doubt that the work for the four freedoms was not nearly finished after the end of the Second World War. The rights of minorities, and women, and the working classes took a long time to come, and are still in the process of being fulfilled and protected as the forces of progress and repression, of money and power versus moral principles, ebbs and flows.
But in judging what has gone before us, we ought not to forget the context in which the great lights of history existed and fought.
This post was published at Jesses Crossroads Cafe on 25 MAY 2015.
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