Part of the reason I had such a drive to be an activist, and support other activists, is because I was raised… — Bonnie Raitt Copy Share Image
I was a catastrophe at Science and Games, but the good thing about Quaker schools is that they encourage you in those… — Richard Rodney Bennett Copy Share Image
Wherefore, brethren, let us be careful neither to out-go our guide, nor yet loiter behind him; since he that makes haste, may… — William Penn Copy Share Image
“I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good things, therefore, that I can do, any good kindness that I… — Stephen Grellet Copy Share Image
In those days, slavery was not looked upon, even in Quaker Philadelphia, with the shudder and abhorrence one feels towards it now. — John Sergeant Wise Copy Share Image
For when I came into the silent assemblies of God's people I felt a secret power among them which touched my heart;… — Robert Barclay Copy Share Image
I don't suggest that the observations are surprising or profound. Rather, they seem to me the merest truisms. I was not aware… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Thus He whose tender mercies are over all His works hath placed a principle in the human mind, which incites to exercise… — John Woolman Copy Share Image
And if you love the light, then you come to the light to be proved, and tried whether your works be wrought… — Margaret Fell Copy Share Image
This gathered worship, as Quakers call it, is not only absence of noise. Gathered worship springs from the reverent, silent expectation that… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The Quaker did not scream: not when the blood began to come swiftly down his face, not when the force of Elf's… — Daniel Polansky Copy Share Image
The way of God was ever hated by the world and the powers thereof. Never heed the rough spirits nor the heavy,… — Francis Howgill Copy Share Image
My List of Virtues contain'd at first but twelve: But a Quaker Friend having kindly inform'd me that I was generally thought… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
From the steady opposition which faithful Friends in early times made to wrong things then approved, they were hated and persecuted by… — John Woolman Copy Share Image
Congress, our leaders, voted against a proposal to have a national seven day waiting period to buy a gun. I don't want… — Jimmy Tingle Copy Share Image
“QUAKER: Since God maintains direct accessibility with every human life and offers instant and uncomplicated guidance, the intervention of priests and ministers… — James A. Michener Copy Share Image
If a man really believes that God once upheld slavery; that he commanded soldiers to kill women and babes; that he believed… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
“She was opinionated without being pushy. When choosing a book to read aloud, she would try to interest him in those spunky… — Barbara Wright Copy Share Image
An elegant simplicity is an understated, organic aesthetic that contrasts with the excess of consumerist lifestyles. Drawing from influences ranging from Zen… — Duane Elgin Copy Share Image
This huge and terrible industry [the slave trade] was blessed by all churches and for a long time aroused absolutely no religious… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
I am never very forward in offering spiritual consolation to any one in distress or disease. I believe that such resources, to… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
There is a spirit which I feel that delights to do no evil, nor to revenge any wrong, but delights to endure… — James Nayler Copy Share Image
All that you seek is already within you. In Hinduism it is called the Atman, in Buddhism the pure Buddha-Mind. Christ said,… — Ram Dass Copy Share Image
Quakers are known for wanting to give back. Ban the bomb and the civil rights movement and the native American struggle for… — Bonnie Raitt Copy Share Image
Looking back at his career, Mr. Rustin, a Quaker, once wrote: ‘The principal factors which influenced my life are 1) nonviolent tactics;… — Bayard Rustin Copy Share Image
For the real difference between happiness and joy is that one is grounded in this world, the other in eternity. Happiness cannot… — Elise M. Boulding Copy Share Image
The love of God again makes us free, for it draws us to set a low value on those things wherein we… — Kenneth E. Boulding Copy Share Image
I give myself this advice: Do not fear truth, let it be ever so contrary to inclination and feeling. Never give up… — Elizabeth Fry Copy Share Image
My grandfather was a practising Quaker. My father was a nihilist. But nihilism, if you like, is the beginning of faith anyway. — Sebastian Horsley Copy Share Image
The likeness we bear to Jesus is more essential than our notions of him. — Lucretia Mott Copy Share Image
There is a quiet, open place in the depths of the mind, to which we can go many times in the day… — Kenneth E. Boulding Copy Share Image
...the more strictly and faithfully every man and woman lives up to the guidance and teaching of this Inward Anointing - and… — Elias Hicks Copy Share Image
The moral man is he who is opposed to injustice per se, opposed to injustice wherever he finds it; the moral man… — Bayard Rustin Copy Share Image
Is religion subjective? Nay, its soul is in objectivity, in an Other whose Life is our true life, whose Love is our… — Thomas Raymond Kelly Copy Share Image
“Why, just what the Quaker said to the Duchess of Buckingham, when he found her, two years after her husband's death, in… — Emily Eden Copy Share Image
My mother was born in your state, Mr. Walter, and my mother was a Quaker, and my ancestors in the time of… — Paul Robeson Copy Share Image
The Quakers have a saying: "An enemy is one whose story we have not heard." To communicate to post-Christians, I must first… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
Now, Friends, deal plainly with yourselves, and let the eternal Light search you, and try you, for the good of your souls.… — Margaret Fell Copy Share Image
As for us, we were never concerned with the Kantian-priestly and vegetarian-Quaker prattle about the "sacredness of human life." We were revolutionaries… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
If the churches ever did reunite, it would have to be into something that was as sacramental and liturgical and authoritative as… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
![“I don't suggest that the observations are surprising or profound. Rather, they seem to me the merest truisms. I was not aware that [ Michel] Foucault had used the phrase "speaking truth to power." I had thought it was an old Quaker phrase.” quote by Noam Chomsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/dd7/noam-chomsky-42_observation_i-don-t-suggest-that-the-observations-ar_1376415.jpg)
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