freedom Quotes

Ours is one continued struggle against degradation sought to be inflicted upon us by the European, who desire to degrade us to the level of the raw Kaffir, whose occupation is hunting and whose sole ambition is to collect a certain number of cattle to buy a wife with, and then pass his life in indolence and nakedness.

An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so.

To deprive a man of his natural liberty and to deny to him the ordinary amenities of life is worse then starving the body; it is starvation of the soul, the dweller in the body.

If co-operation is a duty, I hold that non-co-operation also under certain conditions is equally a duty.

You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind.

Just as a man would not cherish living in a body other than his own, so do nations not like to live under other nations, however noble and great the latter may be.

Man lives freely only by his readiness to die, if need be, at the hands of his brother, never by killing him.

In matters of conscience, the law of the majority has no place.

Intolerance is itself a form of violence and an obstacle to the growth of a true democratic spirit.

It is the duty of every thoughtful Indian not to marry. In case he is helpless in regard to marriage, he should abstain from sexual intercourse with his wife.