FDR - The Four Freedoms

FDR's Four Freedoms Speech addresses the basic rights that people are obligated to have. Freedom of speecg and expression, freedom of religion, freedom from want, and freedom from fear. His overall thesis in my opinion is that everyone deserves these freedoms. He is simply the messenger in a sense, as he says "...we look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms." Calling them "essential" gives these freedoms the description of being not only necessary, but basic. These aren't radical ideas, just the "essential" rights human beings deserve. FDR uses past events and opinions to prject his predictions for the future, which I think really helps him develop his thesis. Coming at the topic through not only emotion. but logic, gains him an arguement which is hard to oppose.