The President’s Four Freedoms
Appeal to me.
I would like to see those Freedoms
Come to be.
If you believe
In the Four Freedoms, too,
Then share ’em with me—
Don’t keep ’em all for you.
Show me that you mean
Democracy, please—
Cause from Bombay to Georgia
I’m beat to my knees.
You can’t lock up Gandhi,
Club Roland Hayes,
Then make fine speeches
About Freedom’s ways.
Looks like by now
Folks ought to know
It’s hard to beat Hitler
Protecting Jim Crow.
Freedom’s not just
To be won Over There.
It means Freedom at home, too—
Now—right here!