Escaped Slaves

Famous quotes containing the words escaped and/or slaves:

“Adam and Eve had many advantages, but the principal one was, that they escaped teething.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)

“Slavery it is that makes slavery; freedom, freedom. The slavery of women happened when the men were slaves of kings.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)