Mahatma Gandhi Quotes About Slavery

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

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Freedom, Fall

  Non-Violence in Peace and War (1949) vol. 2, ch. 5

• 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.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Struggle, Independence, Bidding

  Mahatma Gandhi (2012). “The Essential Gandhi: An Anthology of His Writings on His Life, Work, and Ideas”, p.300, Vintage

• Freedom and slavery are mental states.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Motivational, Freedom, Slavery

  'Non-Violence in Peace and War' (1949) vol. 2, ch. 5

• As long as the superstition that people should obey unjust laws exists, so long will slavery exist

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Law, Long, People

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

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Freedom, Desire, Doe

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Homer A. Jack (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi”, p.125, Courier Corporation

• When a slave begins to take pride in his fetters and hugs them like precious ornaments, the triumph of the slave-owner is complete.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Pride, Slave Owners, Hug

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Homer A. Jack (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi”, p.125, Courier Corporation

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

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Men, Broken, Slavery

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Homer A. Jack (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi”, p.125, Courier Corporation

• The mentality which made one section of the Indians look upon another as enemies was suicidal; it could only serve to perpetuate their slavery.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Suicidal, Enemy, Slavery

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

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Slavery, Way, Strife

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

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Mean, India, Slavery

  Mahatma Gandhi (1984). “The Quintessence of Gandhi in His Own Words”

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

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Creative, Overcoming, Slavery

  Mahatma Gandhi (1980). “Collected Works”

• No one chains a slave without chaining himself.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Slavery, Slave, Chains

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

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Slavery, Cages, Slave

  Mahatma Gandhi (1965). “Glorious Thoughts of Gandhi: Being a Treasury of about Ten Thousand Valuable and Inspiring Thougths of Mahatma Gandhi, Classified Under Four Hundred Subjects”

• 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.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Class, India, Tasks

  Mahatma Gandhi (2014). “Freedom's Battle: Being a Comprehensive Collection of Writings and Speeches on the Present Situation”, p.113, The Floating Press

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

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Father, Son, Slavery

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

• 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.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Gone, Slavery, Weapons

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