Breaking the Chains Quotes

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

Despite the great vision, it is only drop by drop that we squeeze the slave out of ourselves.

Liberate yourself from my vice-like grip!

When my ancestors came from Africa, they were shackled by our neck, our wrists, and our ankles in steel chains. I've turned those steel chains into gold to symbolize the fact that I'm still a slave, only my price tag is higher.

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

The most difficult is the first family, to bring someone out of the world.

Freeing people from oppression and despair is eternally right.

Freedom is best, I tell thee true, of all things to be won. Then never live within the Bond of Slavery.

Gnawing with my teeth my bonds in sunder, I gain'd my freedom.

If you want to be free, all you have to do is let go.

It was a glorious resurrection, from the tomb of slavery, to the heaven of slavery. My long-crushed spirit rose, cowardice departed, bold defiance took its place; and I now resolved that, however long I might remain a slave in form, the day had passed forever when I could be a slave in fact.

There is no such thing as slow freedom. Freedom is like a birth. Till we are fully free we are slaves. All birth takes place in a moment.