Articles related to "Quaker Beliefs"

Quaker values shook the foundation of tyranny with freedom of the press and trial by jury even though they did not support the military cause in the American Revolution.

The following is a contemporary paraphrase of Mary Dyer's actual testimony before the Massachusetts General Court prior to being hung for being a Quaker.

According to Walt Whitman scholars, Whitman was not raised within the tenets of one particular religion, but "Quaker thought always played a major role in Whitman's life"