Martin Luther King Jr. Quotes

As long as the mind is enslaved, the body can never be free.

We shall never secure emancipation from the tyranny of our oppressor until we have achieved it in our own souls.

Emancipate yourself from mental slavery.

One of the most tragic things about slavery was the mental enslavement, the way they made us believe that we were worth nothing; and that's what she's fighting against.

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

Moses freed the Jews. Lincoln freed the slaves. I freed the neurotics.

None but ourselves can free our minds.

Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery, none but ourselves can free our minds!

I freed a thousand slaves I could have freed a thousand more if only they knew they were slaves.

Liberation is not deliverance.

I have achieved an inner freedom.

… true emancipation begins neither at the polls nor in the courts. It begins in woman's soul. History tells us that every oppressed class gained true liberation from its masters through its own efforts.

Freedom and slavery are mental states.

Words mean little unless you realize the truth of it yourself. And when you do, you'll be free at last.

Once your awareness becomes a flame, it burns up the whole slavery that the mind has created.

Es binden Sklavenfesseln nur die H a« nde, Der Sinn, er macht den Freien und den Knecht. The chains of slavery can only bind the hands. The mind makes us either free or enslaved.

Only when the mind is free has the body a chance to be free. Yes, they must believe, they must believe. Because I know what it means to be a slave. I am a slave.

The only reason I can hold up my head is because when He set me free He gave me my dignity back.

Emancipation - what is meant by it? Simply that the slaves shall cease to be held as property and shall henceforth be held and treated as human beings. Simply, that we should take our feet from off their necks.

Women get more unhappy the more they try to liberate themselves.

I sedulously refrained from doing anything that would incite slaves to run away from their masters.

Let each know that for each the body, the mind and the soul have been freed to fulfill themselves.

Maturity and experience are part of my liberation.

Liberate the minds of men and ultimately you will liberate the bodies of men.

We are the first to honour the memories of those who perished through slavery, by declaring August 1 as Emancipation Day.