Famous quotes containing the words escaped and/or convicts:
“I heard of one man who complained that somebody had stolen his boots in the night; and when he found them, he wanted to know what they had done to them,they had spoiled them,he never put that stuff on them; and the bootblack narrowly escaped paying damages.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
“So long as State constitutions say that all may vote when twenty-one, save idiots, lunatics, convicts and women, you are brought down politically to the level of those others disfranchised.”
—Susan B. Anthony (18201906)