Mahatma Gandhi Quotes About Prisons

• Mine is not a religion of the prison-house. It has room for the least among God's creation.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  God, House, Rooms

  Mahatma Gandhi (1980). “All Men are Brothers: Autobiographical Reflections”, p.71, A&C Black

• When freedom is in jeopardy, non-co-operation may be a duty and prison may be a palace.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  May, Palaces, Prison

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (1986). “The Moral and Political Writings of Mahatma Gandhi: Non-Violent Resistance and Social Transformation”, Clarendon Press

• India is one vast prison with high walls of suppression clothing her mind and her body.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Wall, Mind, India

• Liberty is a dearly bought commodity and prisons are factories where it is manufactured.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Liberty, Prison, Commodity

  Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “Collected Works”

• I care so deeply about this matter that I'm willing to take on the legal penalties, to sit in this prison cell, to sacrifice my freedom, in order to show you how deeply I care. Because when you see the depth of my concern, and how civil I am in going about this, you're bound to change your mind about me, to abandon your rigid, unjust position, and to let me help you see the truth of my cause.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Sacrifice, Cells, Order

• I am a poor mendicant. My earthly possessions consist of six spinning wheels, prison dishes, a can of goat's milk, six homespun loincloths and towels and my reputation, which cannot be worth much.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Atheism, Goats, Towels

  Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.40, A&C Black

• By noiselessly going to a prison a civil-resister ensures a calm atmosphere.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Atmosphere, Calm, Prison

  Mahatma Gandhi, Dennis Dalton (1996). “Gandhi: Selected Political Writings”, p.74, Hackett Publishing

• Men in prison are "civilly dead" and have no claim to any say in policy.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Men, Prison, Claims

• A jailer is as much a prisoner as his prisoner.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Prison, Prisoner, Jailer

  Mahatma Gandhi (2012). “The Essential Gandhi: An Anthology of His Writings on His Life, Work, and Ideas”, p.302, Vintage

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