Session IV: The United States' Role in the World

• Excerpts from Amnesty International book Chapters 7 and 8 from "United States of America: Rights for All"
• Sermon by the Rev. Michael McGee, UU Church of Arlington, Virginia, entitled Why Do They Hate Us?
• Suicidal Ignorance by Edward Said (optional)
• "The Four Freedoms" by Franklin Delano Roosevelt
• Pieces by David Orr and Wendell Berry from Land Report # 71 (as yet unfound).

The Four Freedoms by Franklin Delano Roosevelt, January 6, 1941

In the future days which we seek to make secure, we look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms.

The first is freedom of every person to worship God in his own way - everywhere in the world.
The second is freedom of every person to worship God in his own way - everywhere in the world.
The third is freedom from want, which translated into world terms, means economic understanding which will secure to every nation a healthy peacetime life for its inhabitants everywhere in the world.
The fourth is freedom from fear. . . . A good society is able to face schemes of world domination and foreign revolutions alike without fear.

Freedom means the supremacy of human rights everywhere. Our support goes to those who struggle to gain those rights and keep them. Our strength is our unity of purpose.

To that high concept there can be no end save victory.