Escaped Slaves

Famous quotes containing the words escaped and/or slaves:

“...I have escaped by the skin of my teeth.”
—Bible: Hebrew, Job 19:20.

“... the virtue of female slaves is wholly at the mercy of irresponsible tyrants, and women are bought and sold in our slave markets, to gratify the brutal lust of those who bear the name of Christians.”
—Sarah M. Grimke (1792–1873)