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However, I spent most of my time in a Quaker school. -- Brian De Palma
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
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
I was a catastrophe at Science and Games, but the good thing about Quaker schools is that they encourage you in those subjects for which you show an aptitude. -- Richard Rodney Bennett
Neither of my parents went to church, but they did everything that you needed to do to be Christian. That's something a Quaker would call an intimation of the divine. -- Terry Pratchett
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. -- Bayard Rustin
If I were not a Jew I would be a Quaker. -- Albert Einstein
However, ironically, I was baptized Presbyterian, and went to a Quaker school for twelve years -- Brian De Palma
He inherited some good instincts from his Quaker forebearers, but by diligent hard work, he overcame them. -- James Reston, Jr.
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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. -- Herbert Hoover
We've got at least two other streams of that are filled with good, helpful material on meditation - the Catholic stream and the Quaker stream that are not primarily based on meditating on the Scripture. -- Timothy Keller
One sometimes gets the impression that the mere words ' Socialism ' and ' Communism ' draw towards them with magnetic force every fruit-juice drinker, nudist, sandal-wearer, sex-maniac, Quaker, 'Nature Cure' quack, pacifist, and feminist in England. -- George Orwell
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. -- Rufus Jones
NON-COMBATANT, n. A dead Quaker. -- Ambrose Bierce
However, ironically, I was baptized Presbyterian, and went to a Quaker school for twelve years. -- Brian De Palma
By background I'm both a Quaker and a Yorkshireman, which I like to call double jeopardy. -- Jeremy Grantham
My luck is getting worse and worse. Last night, for instance, I was mugged by a quaker. -- Woody Allen
I Love Spirituality it reminds me of the Old Quaker Oats Commercial. "Nothing is better for thee than me"! -- Stanley Victor Paskavich
As for us, we were never concerned with the Kantian-priestly and vegetarian-Quaker prattle about the sacredness of human life. -- Leon Trotsky
My grandfather was a practising Quaker. My father was a nihilist. But nihilism, if you like, is the beginning of faith anyway. -- Sebastian Horsley
The Quaker upbringing was not strict, but it was frugal. Extremely frugal. One was always encouraged to give away ones worldly goods. -- Kathy Baker
The Quaker upbringing was not strict, but it was frugal. Extremely frugal. One was always encouraged to give away one's worldly goods. -- Kathy Baker
In returning I read a very different book, published by an honest Quaker , on that execrable sum of all villanies, commonly called the Slave-trade. -- John Wesley
In the context of Quaker worship, it is perfectly appropriate for any person in the congregation to speak a timely word from the Lord. -- Richard J. Foster
In the context of Quaker worship, it is perfectly appropriate for any person in the congregation to speak a timely word from the Lord. -- Richard J. Foster
I'm teaming up with Quaker and PLAY 60 to encourage kids to eat right, stay active and do something outside for at least 60 minutes a day. -- Andrew Luck
The Quaker loves an ample brim, A hat that bows to no salaam; And dear the beaver is to him As if it never made a dam. -- Thomas Hood
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. -- Julianne Moore
With our sympathy for the wrongdoer we need the old Puritan and Quaker hatred of wrongdoing; with our just tolerance of men and opinions a righteous abhorrence of sin. -- John Greenleaf Whittier
I was influenced by my children's education in Quaker schools in the Philadelphia area. I experienced a spiritual awakening and became a Christian, was baptized, and joined a church. -- Mike Berenstain
I wasn't really aware they were a religious organization for quite some time. But my grandparents were very devout and ran a Quaker meetinghouse and were missionaries at one point. -- Charlie Brooker
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. -- Dwight L. Moody
I wanted to help people. I was raised by Quaker hippies... True happiness comes from helping others, that's what was pounded in my head from day one... So that began my teaching journey. -- Greg Jackson
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
When the Quaker Penn kept his hat on in the royal presence, Charles (King Charles II) politely removed his, explaining that it was the custom in that place for only one person at a time to remain covered. -- Arthur Bryant
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. -- Ned Rorem
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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. -- Bayard Rustin
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
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. -- Noam Chomsky
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. -- Bonnie Raitt
On landing at New York I caught the yellow fever. The kind man who commanded the ship that brought me from France took charge of me and placed me under the care of two Quaker ladies. To their skillful and untiring care I may safely say I owe my life. -- John James Audubon
There is no way to find yourself until you discover how utterly to lose yourself. -- Rufus Jones
Quakers almost as good as colored. They call themselves friends and you can trust them every time. -- Harriet Tubman
I am still looking for the modern equivalent of those Quakers who ran successful businesses and made money because they offered honest products and treated their people decently . . . This business creed, sadly, seems long forgotten. -- Anita Roddick
The Quakers have a saying: "An enemy is one whose story we have not heard." To communicate to post-Christians, I must first listen to their stories for clues to how they view the world and how they view people like me. -- Philip Yancey
Speak the truth. Speak it loud and often, calmly but insistently, and speak it, as the Quakers say, to power. Material accumulation is not the purpose of human existence. All growth is not good. The environment is a necessity, not a luxury. There is such a thing as enough. -- Donella Meadows
The way of God was ever hated by the world and the powers thereof. Never heed the rough spirits nor the heavy, for their bound is set, and their limit known; but mind the Seed, which hath dominion over all. And forsake not the assembling of yourselves together in which you have found God and his promise and power and blessing amongst you, your understanding opened. -- Francis Howgill
My stepmother appeared when I was about 9. My brother was sent off to an institute in Scotland & my sister & I were sent to school. As my stepmother's ideas were then wholly Quaker, mixed with a naive & charming innocence & a little snobbery, it was one dotty epoch on top of another. I always remained terrified of my father. -- Louis MacNeice

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