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If civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the science of human relationships - the ability of all peoples, of all kinds, to live together, in the same world at peace.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you cannot do.
Eleanor Roosevelt
On January 6, 1941, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, proclaimed in his State of the Union that if democracy is to survive and flourish, people everywhere in the world are entitled to four human rights: freedom of speech and expression, freedom of worship, freedom from want and freedom from fear.
In order to keep the legacy of FDR alive, the Roosevelt Institute honors outstanding citizens who have demonstrated a lifelong commitment to these ideals every year. The impressive ceremonies that mark the awarding of the Four Freedoms medals are held alternately in Hyde Park, New York and Middelburg, the Netherlands, where the Roosevelt Stichting, a private foundation, is responsible for organising the ceremony in the even-numbered years.
News
Human Rights and Freedom of Press at center of the Four Freedoms Awards 2010.
May 29, 2010 - Nieuwe Kerk, Middelburg 
Laureates 2010
The International Four Freedoms Award 2010 will be granted to the European Court of Human Rights. Jean Paul Costa, the President of the Court will accept the medal on behalf of the Court.
FDR's speech to Congress
January 6, 1941
I address you, the Members of the Seventy-seventh Congress, at a moment unprecedented in the history of the Union.
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