Quaker Beliefs Quotes

There has never been a time in my life when I felt that I could take a gun and shoot down a fellow-being. In this respect I am a Quaker.

The Quakers don't believe in music or art; they think it's a vanity.

I am a Quaker. And as everyone knows, Quakers, for 300 years, have, on conscientious ground, been against participating in war. I was sentenced to three years in federal prison because I could not religiously and conscientiously accept killing my fellow man.

However, I spent most of my time in a Quaker school.

I come of Quaker stock. My ancestors were persecuted for their beliefs. Here they sought and found religious freedom. By blood and conviction I stand for religious tolerance both in act and in spirit.

I give myself this advice: Do not fear truth, let it be ever so contrary to inclination and feeling. Never give up the search after it; and let me take courage, and try from the bottom of my heart to do that which I believe truth dictates, if it lead me to be a Quaker or not

One way of paying tribute to my parents was 'bearing witness' as the Quakers do - writing down everything that was happening instead of turning my back on it and pretending that it was all great.

What right do these Quaker pacifists have to tell us how to run our newly won independent nation when it is we, who at the risk of our lives and fortunes, secured to the community their liberty and property?

If I could believe the Quakers banned music because church music is so damn bad, I should view them with approval.

It's really interesting because I'm a Quaker... so it's been radical to me to be hired by the Department of Defense under contract.

So upright Quakers please both man and God.