Editing Four Freedoms (section)

==United Nations==
The concept of the Four Freedoms became part of the personal mission undertaken by [[First Lady of the United States|former First Lady]] [[Eleanor Roosevelt]] in 1948. She helped inspire the [[United Nations Declaration of Human Rights]], General Assembly Resolution 217A. Indeed, these Four Freedoms were explicitly incorporated into the preamble to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which reads: "''Whereas'' disregard and contempt for human rights have resulted in barbarous acts which have outraged the conscience of mankind, and the advent of a world in which human beings shall enjoy the freedom of speech and belief and freedom from fear and want has been proclaimed the highest aspiration of the common people."<ref>{{cite book|author1=White, E.B. |author2=Lerner, Max |author3=Cowley, Malcolm |author4=Niebuhr, Reinhold |title= The United Nations Fight for the Four Freedoms|url=https://archive.org/details/TheUnitedNationsFightForTheFourFreedoms_728 |asin=B003HKRK80|location = Washington, D.C.|publisher= Government Printing Office|date= 1942 }}</ref>