John Ball Speech - Cast off the Yoke of Bondage

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John Ball Speech - Cast off the Yoke of Bondage

Cast off the Yoke of Bondage by John Ball one of the leaders of the English Peasants Revolt against
King Richard II, June 1381

From the beginning all men by nature were created alike, and our bondage or servitude came in by the unjust oppression of naughty men. For if God would have had any bondsmen from the beginning, he would have appointed who would have had any bond and who free. And therefore 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.