Four Freedoms State Park and The Common Good: Join My 365-Day Peaceful Photo Challenge

DAY 252. Living with irrevocable differences and curating peace through contemplative photography.

Author’s Photos: Views of the Four Freedoms State Park, and FDR’s Four Freedoms Speech Monument at Roosevelt Island, New York, New York

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May 11, 2025

On January 6, 1941, President Franklin D. Roosevelt delivered his State of the Union Four Freedoms Speech, concluding with a stirring vision for a world grounded in four essential freedoms: freedom of speech and expression, freedom to worship God, freedom from want, and freedom from fear.

FDR proclaimed this “world [to be] attainable in our own time and generation.” “Freedom,” he declared, meant “the supremacy of human rights everywhere” and set the stage for America to abandon its isolationist policies and enter World War…