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What does "the fifth freedom" mean?
"Fifth freedom" refers to freedom from ignorance.

In the late World War II, American President Roosevelt put forward the slogan of "Four Freedoms", namely "freedom of speech, freedom of belief, freedom from want and freedom from fear". Yan, a civilian educator in China, made a supplement to this. He said: "We can't have only four freedoms, but also a fifth freedom, which is great compared with the other four. Without it, can we have the "four freedoms"? This is freedom from ignorance. "