It means that you don't have to be surrounded by stone and iron to find yourself in a prison or in a cage...
The strongest bars are not made of iron...but of your own fears.
People go about their day to day lives never brave enough to step off the path and live their life against the grain. They're locked inside a cage of their own creation and they don't even realize it. They don't know what it truly means to be free.
From the other side: freedom comes from within, from your attitude. Stone walls can not deny your inner freedom. See the Stoic, Epictetus's writings as well on this topic.
Her msin quote is " stone walls not a prison make nor iron bars not a cage"
prison should not feel like stone walls, okay. WRONG.Madie- It means that you can imprison yourself without being inside an actual prison. For example: someone can imprison their mind, and they only think in specific subjects.
Richard Lovelace, evidently a colonel, while in prison, wrote to an "Althea," saying "stone walls do not a prison make, nor iron bars a cage. Found this by googling "stone walls do not a prison make"
Stone walls do not a prison make/nor iron bars a cage
Richard Lovelace (1618-1658) to Althea from prison(1649. The whole verse reads Stone walls do not a prison make, Nor iron bars a cage; Minds innocent and quiet take That for an hermitage; If I have freedom in my love, And in my soul am free, Angels alone that soar above Enjoy such liberty.
The duration of Inside the Walls of Folsom Prison is 1.45 hours.
Behind Stone Walls was created in 1932.
A Concert Behind Prison Walls was created on 2003-09-23.
Inside the Walls of Folsom Prison was created on 1951-05-18.
Behind Prison Walls - 1943 was released on: USA: 22 March 1943
Tortures Within Prison Walls - 1913 was released on: USA: 1 July 1913
A Concert Behind Prison Walls - 1977 TV was released on: USA: 1977