Quote - India shall be free

2006-10-19 11:27 AM | Posted by Tejvan Pettinger | Permanent Link | by Mahatma Gandhi, Quotes on Freedom

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"We shall feel happy and free like a bird even behind the prison walls. We shall never weary of jail-going. When the whole of India has learned this lesson, India shall be free. For, if the alien power turns the whole of India into a vast prison, it will not be able to imprison her soul."

Mahatma Gandhi

Gandhi wrote this whilst being imprisoned for the first time in January 11, 1908. He was jailed several times during his non violent protests against the British Rule. He spent a total of two thousand three hundred and thirty-eight days in jail