Mahatma Gandhi Quotes About Slavery
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My interest in India's freedom will cease if she adopts violent means, for their fruit will not be freedom but slavery in disguise.
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Freedom and slavery are mental states.
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If as a member of a slave nation I could deliver the suppressed classes from their slavery without freeing myself from my own, I would do so today. But it is an impossible task.
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A slave-holder cannot hold a slave without putting himself or his deputy in the cage for holding the slave.
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No one chains a slave without chaining himself.
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The moment the slave resolves that he will no longer be a slave, his fetters fall. Freedom and slavery are mental states.
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When a slave begins to take pride in his fetters and hugs them like precious ornaments, the triumph of the slave-owner is complete.
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Compulsory obedience to a master is a state of slavery, willing obedience to one's father is the glory of son ship.
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As long as the superstition that people should obey unjust laws exists, so long will slavery exist
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A slave- holder, who has decided to abolish slavery, does not consult his slaves whether they desire freedom or not.
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The chains of a slave are broken the moment he considers himself a free man.
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To end slavery, you must overcome the mental and physical inertia of the masses and quicken their intelligence and creative faculty.
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The mentality which made one section of the Indians look upon another as enemies was suicidal; it could only serve to perpetuate their slavery.
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The way of mutual strife and exclusiveness is the only way to perdition and slavery.
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If we were to drive out the English with the weapons with which they enslaved us, our slavery would still be with us even when they have gone.
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How can one be compelled to accept slavery? I simply refuse to do the master's bidding. He may torture me, break my bones to atoms and even kill me. He will then have my dead body, not my obedience. Ultimately, therefore, it is I who am the victor and not he, for he has failed in getting me to do what he wanted done.
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Mahatma Gandhi
- Born: October 2, 1869
- Died: January 30, 1948
- Occupation: Civil rights leader
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