Abraham Lincoln

The legal right of the Southern people to reclaim their fugitives I have constantly admitted. The legal right of Congress to interfere with their institution in the states, I have constantly denied.

American President

Abbie Hoffman

I was a fugitive, taking risks with my life. I chose that. I chose to be a volunteer to go to Guatemala when they were having their earthquake, to help people with a team of doctors.

American Activist

Paul Horgan

The most valuable writers are those in whom we find not themselves, or ourselves, or the fugitive era of their lifetimes, but the common vision of all times.

American Author

Theodor Reik

We are all in a race for dear life: that is to say, we are fugitives from death.

American Psychologist

Duane Chapman

Born on a mountain, raised in a cave. Arresting fugitives is all I crave.

American Celebrity

Kevin Mitnick

Once when I was a fugitive, I was working for a law firm in Denver.

American Businessman

Joan Rivers

The ideal beauty is a fugitive which is never found.

American Comedian

John Walsh

I figured out how to catch fugitives without a gun.

American Entertainer

Bill Mauldin

I feel like a fugitive from the law of averages.

American Cartoonist

Paul Watson

Canadian Environmentalist

A fugitive often hides to avoid capture, creating a sense of a pursuit or search.

Hide and Seek

Fugitive is commonly used in legal or crime-related contexts, referring to someone avoiding law enforcement.

Legal Context

The term 'fugitive' carries a negative connotation, implying wrongdoing or criminal behavior.

Negative Connotation

Uses the adjective form to describe something that vanishes quickly or doesn't last, often poetic.

Ephemeral Nature

Fugitive as an adjective adds a dramatic or literary quality when describing temporary aspects of life or art.

Literary Flair

In a chemistry context, 'fugitive' means a substance that evaporates or dissolves easily.

Scientific Use

The term is technical jargon in chemistry, not typically understood without specific knowledge of the field.

Specialized Vocabulary

In art, 'fugitive' describes colors that will not remain stable or permanent over time.

Artistic Terms

Understanding 'fugitive' is essential for art conservation, as these colors affect a painting’s longevity.

Preservation Concern

 Even as a small child, Minty was hired out to different owners, who subjected her to whippings and punishment. Young Minty’s life changed forever on an errand to a neighborhood store. There, an overseer threw a two-pound weight at a fugitive enslaved person, missed, and struck Minty instead. Her injury caused her to experience sleeping spells,

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 to basically never do anything wrong. Why are we not providing support to young kids facing these challenges? Why are we offering only handcuffs, jail time and this fugitive existence? Can we imagine something better? Can we imagine a criminal justice system that prioritizes recovery,

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 inside of various imagined romances with him. So in one, I tell him that I'm pregnant with his child. In another, we meet in hospital where we're both fighting cancer, and in another, we fall so deeply in love that we become fugitives who kill people. But then

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 Some of her novels explore when love challenges social conventions, like the forbidden affection that grows between the townsfolk of "Paradise" and their fugitive neighbors. Other works examine how we can be blind to the love we already possess.

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 You guys ready for your lives to change forever? - 5-- - Doesn't mean it didn't work. I'd like to report the setting of a fugitive. There's a judgment coming. It's over. It's far from over.

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Gun violence as told by...

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