Bill Johnson Quotes

It's difficult to put into words what freedom feels like. You only know what freedom feels like if you know what it feels like to not be free.

Nor was it only from the millions of slaves that chains had been removed; the whole nation had been in bondage; free speech had been suppressed.

I'm like a caged animal sometimes. Let me yearn to breathe free.

I knew I wasn't born to be caged and chained up.

We're all in prison. All of us are in prison, but some of us have a key.

Do not help your jailers to pretend that their jail is your natural state of existence.

I know why the caged bird sings.

You can cage the songbird, but you can't make her sing. And you can trap the free bird, but you'll have to clip her wings.

I get out, I get out of all your boxes. I get out, you can't hold me in these chains. I'll get out. Father free me from this bondage. Knowin' my condition is the reason I must change

I do not wish to remove from my present prison to a prison a little larger. I wish to break all prisons.

The miracle is that some have stepped out of the rags of the Republic's definition to assume the great burden and glory of their humanity and their responsibility for one another. It is an extraordinary achievement to be trapped in the dungeon of color and to dare to shake down its walls and to step out of it leaving the jailkeeper in the rubble.

Evangelism is not a professional job for a few trained men, but is instead the unrelenting responsibility of every person who belongs to the company of Jesus.

Slavery it is that makes slavery; freedom, freedom. The slavery of women happened when the men were slaves of kings.

Life is full of censorship. I cant spit in your eye.

Liberation means you don't have to be silenced.

The land of unlimited opportunity was for me, for a long time, impossible to reach. The wall, barbed wire and the order to shoot at those who tried to leave limited my access to the free world.

As soon as people become a little less fearful, they will also begin demanding more freedom.

The greatest humanistic and historical task of the oppressed: to liberate themselves.

It is only the oppressed who, by freeing themselves, can free their oppressors.

Thank God you can flee, can escape from that massy five-foot-thick maggot-cheesy solidarity which overlays the earth, in which men and women in couples are ranked like ninepins.

For those who stubbornly seek freedom, there can be no more urgent task than to come to understand the mechanisms and practices of indoctrination.

We're not trying to take power away or rule anybody - we're just trying to get up from under the rulers.

If one of us is chained, none of us are free...

Give the slave the least elevation of religious sentiment, and he is not slave: you are the slave: he not only in his humility feels his superiority, feels that much deplored condition of his to be a fading trifle, but he makes you feel it too. He is the master.