Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

If you put a chain around the neck of a slave, the other end fastens itself around your own.

Slavery takes hold of few, but many take hold of slavery.

People can be slave-ships in shoes.

In every man's mind the good seeds of liberty are planted, and he who brings his fellow down so low, as to make him contented with a condition of slavery, commits the highest crime against God and man. Brethren, your oppressors aim to do this. They endeavor to make you as much like brutes as possible. When they have blinded the eyes of your mind-when they have embittered the sweet waters of the light which shines from the word of God-then, and not till then has American slavery done its perfect work.

Slavery doesn't have any positives.

However you disguise slavery, it is slavery still. Its chains, though wreathed with roses, not only fasten on the body but rivet on the mind.

Talk about slavery! It is not the peculiar institution of the South. It exists wherever men are bought and sold, wherever a man allows himself to be made a mere thing or a tool, and surrenders his inalienable rights of reason and conscience. Indeed, this slavery is more complete than that which enslaves the body alone.

This is what it means to be a slave; to be abused and bear it; compelled by violence to suffer wrong.

This is about slavery.

Slavery is the cause of treason and sustains it everywhere it exists.

Slavery is the rule. Freedom the exception.

The slave child had no thought for the morrow; but there came that blight, which too surely waits on every human being born to be a chattel.

My definition of slavery is the deprivation of human volition, any form of relationship between two peoples which is based on the deprivation of volition of one side.

I pity from the bottom of my heart any nation or body of people that is so unfortunate as to get entangled in the net of slavery.

Beat and cuff your slave, keep him hungry and spiritless, and he will follow the chain of his master like a dog. Feed and clothe him well, work him moderately, surround him with physical comfort and dreams of freedom intrude.

We stole their babes and mothers, chiefs and braves Although we held the whip, you knew we were The real slaves To alchemy, human alchemy.

A nation that enslaves another forges its own chains.

Slavery was a long slow process of dulling.

By a divine paradox, wherever there is one slave there are two

We are the slaves of slaves

There are a few men whom slavery holds fast, but there are many more who hold fast to slavery.

Slavery is an institution for converting men into monkeys.

Slavery is the offspring of darkness.

That slow poison [slavery] is daily contaminating the minds and morals of our people. Every gentlemen here is born a petty tyrant, practiced in acts of despotism and cruelty.

Notwithstanding my grandmother's long and faithful service to her owners, not one of her children escaped the auction block. These God-breathing machines are no more, in the sight of their masters, than the cotton they plant, or the horses they tend.