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Liberty Leading the People

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Watch President Roosevelt outline his Four Freedoms and learn how Britain defeated Germany's Luftwaffe

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Also Known As	individual liberty • freedom

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Liberty Leading the People

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Watch President Roosevelt outline his Four Freedoms and learn how Britain defeated Germany's Luftwaffe

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political liberty emancipation civil liberty Joyeuse Entrée slavery human rights voting rights disability rights movement suffrage feminism Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Programs toleration affirmative action womanism justice equality

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1st Baron Acton of Aldenham, oil painting by Franz von Lenbach; in the National Portrait Gallery, London

John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton, 1st Baron Acton

English historian and moralist