#quaker

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

— Brian De Palma

#i #most #my time #quaker #school

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

#days #even #feels #looked #now

She ought to call him Benjamin, but it was too intimate, too soft. "My lord?" she ventured, only half serious. "Good, God, no." She bit back a smile. "Husband?" she took a sip of wine. He grunted. "Are we to become Quakers? ↗

— Kristen Callihan

#benjamin #firelight #funny #miranda #names

To find religion itself, you must look inside people and inside yourself. And there, if you find even the tiniest grain of true love, you may be on the right scent. Millions of people have it and don’t know what it is they have. God is their guest, but they haven’t the faintest idea that s/he is in the house. So you mustn’t only look where God is confessed and acknowledged. You must look everywhere to find the real religion... Living with God is not an apparition but a wordless and endless sureness. Like the silence of two friends together. ↗

— Bernard Canter

#inner #quaker #religion #love

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

— Harriet Tubman

#call #colored #every #every time #friends

Margaret had close links with Geneva where she had spent some years as a student while her parents had been wardens of the Quaker Hostel there and where she had gone back as secretary to Gilbert Murray. ↗

— James Meade

#been #close #geneva #gilbert #gone

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

— Ezra Pound

#bad #banned #because #believe #church

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

— Bonnie Raitt

#being #calling #family #grew #i

My mother was born in your state, Mr. Walter, and my mother was a Quaker, and my ancestors in the time of Washington baked bread for George Washington's troops when they crossed the Delaware, and my own father was a slave. ↗

— Paul Robeson

#baked #born #bread #crossed #delaware

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. ↗

— Anita Roddick

#because #business #businesses #creed #decently