shackles

Synonyms

fetter chian trammel chain iron yoke bondage irons handcuff manacle handcuffs bilboes darbies

Examples

There is nothing evil save that which perverts the mind and shackles the conscience. Ambrose

Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise, every expanded prospect. James Madison

Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision. Salvador Dalí

Slaves cannot breathe in England if their lungs Receive our air, that moment they are free They touch our country, and their shackles fall. William Cowper

I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own. Audre Lorde

I refuse to accept that the shackles of slavery can ever be stronger than the quest for freedom. Kailash Satyarthi