Quote#Freedom
I exhort you to consider that now the time is come, appointed to us…
Quote byJohn Ball · 1338–1381
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Sermon at Blackheath (12 June 1381), quoted in Annals, or a General Chronicle of England.
English (original)
I exhort you to consider that now the time is come, appointed to us by God, in which ye may (if ye will) cast off the yoke of bondage, and recover liberty.
— John Ball
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