You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
If my body is enslaved, still my mind is free.
Tyrants have not yet discovered any chains that can fetter the mind.
When you have a chain around your neck, you have to keep your head down and try to accept your fate without succumbing entirely to humiliation, without forgetting who you are.
Honestly, you could beat me, torture me - just don't bore me.
If one is free at heart, no man-made chains can bind one to servitude, but if one's mind is so manipulated and controlled by the oppressor, then there will be nothing the oppressed can do to scare his powerful masters.
Unless a capacity for thinking be accompanied by a capacity for action, a superior mind exists in torture.
If you strike at, imprison, or kill us, out of our prisons or graves we will still evoke a spirit that will thwart you, and perhaps, raise a force that will destroy you! We defy you! Do your worst!
Perish the infamous doctrine that man can have property in man. Let us resent with indignation every effort to put a chain upon our minds.
The torture of a bad conscience is the hell of a living soul.
Anytime you turn on your own concept of God, you are no longer a free man. No one needs to put chains on your body, because the chains are on your mind.