Emancipate yourself from mental slavery, none but yourself can free your mind.
An upvote to the first person to correctly identify the first person to say that (the quote is often misattributed, you’ll get a downvote if you identify the wrong author).
We are going to emancipate ourselves from mental slavery because whilst others might free the body, none but ourselves can free the mind. Mind is your only ruler, sovereign. The man who is not able to develop and use his mind is bound to be the slave of the other man who uses his mind
Marcus Garvey. I think it works better in this longer form.
Bob Marley, although before I checked Google search, Books, and Scholar, I had expected to find it was by Epictetus. Oh well.
EDIT: In my defense, Garvey’s original is not the same as the Bob Marley version which Robin presented. I think it’s a little disingenuous to consider the Bob Marley version ‘misattributed’.
Emancipate yourself from mental slavery, none but yourself can free your mind.
An upvote to the first person to correctly identify the first person to say that (the quote is often misattributed, you’ll get a downvote if you identify the wrong author).
Marcus Garvey. I think it works better in this longer form.
Bob Marley, although before I checked Google search, Books, and Scholar, I had expected to find it was by Epictetus. Oh well.
EDIT: In my defense, Garvey’s original is not the same as the Bob Marley version which Robin presented. I think it’s a little disingenuous to consider the Bob Marley version ‘misattributed’.
Reminded me of...
Roy Harper