Mahatma Gandhi Slavery Quotations

The chains of a slave are broken the moment he considers himself a free man.

Freedom and slavery are mental states.

A slave-holder cannot hold a slave without putting himself or his deputy in the cage for holding the slave.

No one chains a slave without chaining himself.

The way of mutual strife and exclusiveness is the only way to perdition and slavery.

To end slavery, you must overcome the mental and physical inertia of the masses and quicken their intelligence and creative faculty.

Compulsory obedience to a master is a state of slavery, willing obedience to one's father is the glory of son ship.

A slave- holder, who has decided to abolish slavery, does not consult his slaves whether they desire freedom or not.

My interest in India's freedom will cease if she adopts violent means, for their fruit will not be freedom but slavery in disguise.

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.

The moment the slave resolves that he will no longer be a slave, his fetters fall. Freedom and slavery are mental states.