Quaker Values Quotes

In those days, slavery was not looked upon, even in Quaker Philadelphia, with the shudder and abhorrence one feels towards it now.

Look at the Quakers - they were excellent business people that never lied, never stole; they cared for their employees and the community which gave them the wealth. They never took more money out than they put back in.

If I were not a Jew I would be a Quaker.

I know my father believed and my mother believed in and supported the suffrage movement, and I remember my mother taking me to suffrage meetings held in the home of a Quaker family that lived not far from us.

I lost my eyes In east wind skies Here's where I've cried Where I've tried Where God and the Tendaberry rise Where Quakers and revolutionaries Join for life

Quakers almost as good as colored. They call themselves friends and you can trust them every time.

Part of the reason I had such a drive to be an activist, and support other activists, is because I was raised Quaker and my parents kept us very much informed and involved as kids in civil rights and the conservation movement.

I thought about the treaties made by Wm. Pitt with the inhabitants of America… I flattered myself that since I wished to emulate the Quaker in sincerity, the Kaffers would follow the example of the American Indians.

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

The kids go to a Quaker school. Their father and I believe a lot in community, social responsibility, making sure you give to people less fortunate than you.

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

I grew up in Los Angeles in a Quaker family, and for me being Quaker was a political calling rather than a religious one.

He inherited some good instincts from his Quaker forebears, but by diligent hard work, he overcame them.

As a lifelong pacifist, Quaker, and a gay man, I despair that gays and lesbians are expending energy trying to get into the military when they should be using that same energy getting rid of the military completely.

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.

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.

My activism did not spring from my being gay, or, for that matter, from my being black. Rather, it is rooted fundamentally in my Quaker upbringing and the values that were instilled in me by my grandparents who reared me.

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?

Nantucket was a Quaker-based culture, so they were not readers. There's a great Nantucket-based novel from the 19th century that Melville read for his research for 'Moby-Dick': 'Miriam Coffin' by Joseph Hart.

When I was in junior high, I went to a really hippy dippy Quaker school where we called our teachers by their first names and stuff.

Whether in times of war or times of peace the Quaker is under peculiar obligation to assist and to forward movements and forces which make for peace in the world and which bind men together in ties of unity and fellowship.

Quaker meetings were the first enclaves in American society in which women were encouraged to speak out in public

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.

I am still looking for the modern equivalent of those Quakers who ran successful businesses, made money because they offered honest products and treated their people decently... This business creed, sadly, seems long forgotten.

So upright Quakers please both man and God.