A SLAVE IS HE WHO CANNOT SPEAK HIS THOUGHTS

      

Slavery in olden times consisted in the sale and purchase of human beings who were forced to toil and labour in the service of their masters. Saves had absolutely no right and were treated as portable commodities. That kind of slavery does not exist any longer, thanks to the advance of human civilization. But now another kind of slavery has come into existence, and that is the denial of the right of self-expression.Under a democratic system of government, citizens enjoy the freedom of speech and are , therefore, their own masters. 
       But under a dictatorial or totalitarian regime, this freedom of speech does not exist. Hitler in Nazi Germany and Mussolini in fascist Itlay ruled with an iron hand and did not allow their people to speak their minds. We, too, have an experience of dictators in our country.Whatever the professed benefits of autocratic rules, these benefits are nullified by one restriction, people being forbidden to express their real thoughts and feelings. Self-expression is the prime need of human nature. 

       When people of a country are not allowed to express themselves, human personality feels curbed, confined and constricted. This denial of self-expression reduces people to a position of slavery. When this state of affairs continues for a long time, mental growth of people is retarded any they become less than human beings. They become dumb driven cattle, having no volition of their own. They cease to be a nation, They are a crowd of people controlled from outside, They become unable to develop  their talents and to play their role as active, dynamic human beings. 
      No man can grow to his fullest stature without the freedom of speech and expression, represents a state of civilization much worse than the barbaric societies of ancient time. Hence, the real slaves are those who are not allowed to express themselves.