Mental Slavery Quotes

“Freedom of speech is unnecessary if the people to whom it is granted do not think for themselves.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“A conscious human is driven by their conscience, not popular opinion.”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

“It is mental slavery to cling to things that have stopped serving it’s purpose in your life.”
― Chinonye J. Chidolue

“I have made up my mind to say my say. I shall do it kindly, distinctly; but I am going to do it. I know there are thousands of men who substantially agree with me, but who are not in a condition to express their thoughts. They are poor; they are in business; and they know that should they tell their honest thought, persons will refuse to patronize them—to trade with them; they wish to get bread for their little children; they wish to take care of their wives; they wish to have homes and the comforts of life. Every such person is a certificate of the meanness of the community in which he resides. And yet I do not blame these people for not expressing their thought. I say to them: 'Keep your ideas to yourselves; feed and clothe the ones you love; I will do your talking for you. The church can not touch, can not crush, can not starve, cannot stop or stay me; I will express your thoughts.”
― Robert G. Ingersoll, The Liberty Of Man, Woman And Child

“Education is for freedom - freedom from mental slavery.”
― Ogwo David Emenike

“These negroes aren't asking for no nation. They wanna crawl back on the plantation.”
― Malcolm X

“...it is not enough to be free
of the whips, principalities and powers”
― Kamau Brathwaite, The arrivants;: A new world trilogy

“As a rule,
I believe people shouldn't follow rules;
rules should follow people.”
― Eric Micha'el Leventhal

“Ignorance is the greatest slave master in the universe.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

“The mind is guarded by its defense system: knowledge”
― Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

“Not all slaves are poor, and not all free men are rich.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

“Mental stories can literally spoil a human life. It took me a long time to become aware of my mental commentary, such as: “Everything always goes wrong”, “I won’t be accepted”, “I’m a failure” or “What’s the point?” Those fears were deep-rooted and triggered many upsetting addictive patterns of behaviour”
― Christopher Dines, The Kindness Habit: Transforming our Relationship to Addictive Behaviours

“We are going to emancipate ourselves from mental slavery, for though others may free the body, none but ourselves can free the mind.”
― Marcus Garvey, Emancipated From Mental Slavery

“The mind will enchain yourself, others or both. Your heart will set you / them free”
― Rasheed Ogunlaru

“Employment is world slavery”
― Sunday Adelaja

“The public education system did not promote the enlightenment of the individual, but rather suppressed critical thought and neurodiversity. It produced preformatted, standardized, and obedient worker-citizen consumers that are programmed to feed the system that holds them captured, exploited, and enslaved. Silently and collectively, they are sawing the branch of reason on which we are all sitting.”
― Rajinder Jhol, Shine

“Religion perfected colonization and ensured the mental chains' safety.”
― Seun Ayilara

“The greatest prison anyone can escape from is ignorance.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

“Mental slavery of religious leader is more dangerous and blind than the slavery of political leader
Because the political leader promise to turn the country into God's heaven
But religious leader promise to take followers directly into God's Heaven”
― Mohammed Zaki Ansari, "Zaki's Gift Of Love"

“Please, do not let the chains of mental slavery pass to the next generation.
It's on YOU now!”
― Chidi Ejeagba

“When will we wake up, see the cycle of abuse.
The mental slavery,
the aid with one hand, guns they produce.
Causing war, then posing as the savior.
Keeping the world blind.
They see no evil, they hear no plight,
and they speak not a word,
hiding the truth from our sight.”
― Hagir Elsheikh, Dreamer In Chains: Poems of Exile and Resilience