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11 days agoI get what you mean but Quakers have been persecuted for pretty much always being on right side of history their whole existence.
I get what you mean but Quakers have been persecuted for pretty much always being on right side of history their whole existence.
My 18th century ancestor having challenged someone to a duel at 25
*thinking about a second *
They’re like small minority of Christian proto anarchists (no priests no churches, occaisonal communes/intentional communities) who are extreme pacifists, but understand how imperialism, social murder and is violence, constantly acting against it by non violent but radical means.
A bunch fled the UK to the USA to avoid persecution and them immediately got themselves lynched for helping slaves escape and working with first Nations people.
That said Richard Nixon’s patents were Quakers and he was ostensibly one at some pirt, but he sort of drifted out of it in college before ever getting disowned (quaker excommunication)