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Quakers are terrific.
Ian Mckellen / Actor
Terrific
Quakers
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I literally fell among Quakers when I went up to Oxford.
Lionel Blue / Rabbi
Oxford
Quaker
Among
Literally
Quakers
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The Quakers don't believe in music or art; they think it's a vanity.
James Turrell / Artist
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Our Quakers love us. We're big with the Quakers. It's all about cleanliness.
Kyan Douglas / Television Actor
Bigs
Cleanliness
Quaker
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Quakers almost as good as colored. They call themselves friends and you can trust them every time.
Harriet Tubman / Activist
Friends
Trust
Quaker
Time Trust Good
Almost
Call
Trust Time Good
Colored
Every Time
Quakers
Themselves
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If I could believe the Quakers banned music because church music is so damn bad, I should view them with approval.
Ezra Pound / Poet
Approval
Banned
Believe
Church Music
Damn
If I Could
Views
Quakers
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Yes, the small village that we live in, in Virginia, is a very interesting place, in terms of its Civil War history, because it was a town that was founded by Quakers in 1733.
Geraldine Brooks / Journalist
Civil War
Village
Virginia
Civil
Interesting Place
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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.
Roz Chast / Cartoonist
Tribute
Witness
Bearing
Turning
Paying
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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.
Anita Roddick / Entrepreneur
Community
Excellent
Lied
Looks
People
Wealth
Business Money Look
Business People
Cared
Employees
Quakers
Stole
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Should slavery be abolished there, (and it is an event, which, from these circumstances, we may reasonably expect to be produced in time) let it be remembered, that the Quakers will have had the merit of its abolition.
Thomas Clarkson /
Abolish
Abolition
Circumstances
Merit
Remembered
Slavery
Time May Will
Event
Expect
Produced
Quakers
Reasonably
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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 / Entrepreneur
Forgotten
Honest
Products
Ran
Seems
Successful
Treated
Business Money I Am
Business Money Long
Businesses
Creed
Decently
Equivalent
Offered
Quakers
Sadly
Successful Businesses
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Quakers are known for wanting to give back. Ban the bomb and the civil rights movement and the native American struggle for justice - those things were very, very front-burner in my childhood, as were the ideas of working for peace and if you have more than you need, then you share it with people who don't.
Bonnie Raitt / Singer-Songwriter
Childhood
Civil Rights
Civil Rights Movement
Movement
Native
Native American
Rights
Share
Struggle
Ban
Bomb
Civil
Quakers
Rights Movement
Wanting
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I descend from both Philadelphia Quakers and Carolina colonists whose families were separated by the Revolutionary War. That helped give me insight into the agony of Patriots who, until the British government denied their claims, had always, like Ben Franklin himself, thought of themselves as free-born Englishmen.
Edward Rutherfurd / Writer
Agony
British Government
Carolina
Claims
Colonists
Denied
Englishmen
Franklin
Give Me
Insight
Philadelphia
Revolutionary
Revolutionary War
Descend
War Government Me
Ben
Patriots
Quakers
Separated
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On the whole, the accommodationist position has been dominant in U.S. law and public culture ─ ever since George Washington wrote a famous letter to the Quakers explaining that he would not require them to serve in the military because the 'conscientious scruples of all men' deserve the greatest 'delicacy and tenderness.'
Martha Nussbaum /
Delicacy
Explaining
Scruples
Tenderness
Conscientious
Letter
Quakers
Require
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I saw the first of the 7-mile-long column appear - red and orange and green banners, 'Ban the Bomb!' etc., shining and swaying slowly. Absolute silence. I found myself weeping to see the tan, dusty marchers, knapsacks on their backs - Quakers and Catholics, Africans and whites, Algerians and French - 40 percent were London housewives.
Sylvia Plath / Poet
Banner
Etc
Green
London
Orange
Percent
Red
Shining
Silence
Weeping
Absolute
Tan
African
Appear
Backs
Ban
Bomb
Catholics
Column
French
Dusty
Slowly
Housewives
Quakers
Whites
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