New Delhi, April 13 -- "Freedom of mind is the real freedom. A person whose mind is not free, though he may not be in chains, is a slave, not a free man." - B.R. Ambedkar

Ahead of the 136th birth anniversary of BR Ambedkar, LiveMint's quote of the day emphasises intellectual and spiritual liberty.

At its core, this quote argues that physical liberty is meaningless without intellectual and spiritual liberty. Dr Ambedkar is distinguishing between nominal freedom and substantive freedom.

A person might not be in a literal prison or wearing iron chains (negative freedom-freedom from external constraint), but they can still be enslaved by internal constraints.

These internal chains include deeply ingrained prejudices, superstitious dogmas,...