Read the excerpt from Roosevelt’s "Four Freedoms” speech.In the future days, which we seek to make secure, we look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms.

Roosevelt contrasts “the future days” with the present, saying that a secure future must be built around four essential freedoms. This supports the idea that people need to act and fight now to protect those freedoms for tomorrow. Choice D best captures that purpose; the excerpt does not say that Americans should fight simply because it is their duty to defend democracy around the world.

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