Fugitive Slaves

Famous quotes containing the words fugitive slaves, fugitive and/or slaves:

“Is this what all these soldiers, all this training, have been for these seventy-nine years past? Have they been trained merely to rob Mexico and carry back fugitive slaves to their masters?”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“It is by a mathematical point only that we are wise, as the sailor or the fugitive slave keeps the polestar in his eye; but that is sufficient guidance for all our life. We may not arrive at our port within a calculable period, but we would preserve the true course.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“You were bought with a price; do not become slaves of human masters.”
—Bible: New Testament, 1 Corinthians 7:23.