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Star symbol used by many service organisations of the Religious Society of Friends There are many Quaker service organizations dedicated to peace and humanitarian activities overseas. The first, the British Friends Service Council (FSC), was founded in Great Britain in 1927 and shared the 1947 Nobel Prize for Peace with the American Friends ...
English: This red and black star has been used as a symbol of Quaker service since the late 19th century unofficially, and was officially adopted (with some changes) by the American Friends Service Committee in 1917. Another variation on it is used by the British organization Quaker Peace and Social Witness.
The Beginnings of Quakerism (1912); revised by Henry J. Cadbury (1955) online edition Archived 2012-07-21 at the Wayback Machine; Braithwaite, William C. Second Period of Quakerism (1919); revised by Henry Cadbury (1961), covers 1660 to 1720s in Britain; Brock, Peter. Pioneers of the Peaceable Kingdom (1968), on Peace Testimony from the 1650s ...
He felt that Quakerism was becoming indistinguishable from other Christian denominations. Wilbur, like Hicks before him, put more emphasis on the Quaker idea of the Inward light, which had similarities to later charismatic concepts. Those who aligned with Wilbur's ideas back in the United States became known as "Wilburites", separating from the ...
Quakers were at the center of the movement to abolish slavery in the early United States; it is no coincidence that Pennsylvania, center of American Quakerism, was the first state to abolish slavery. In the antebellum period, "Quaker meeting houses [in Philadelphia] ...had sheltered abolitionists for generations."
This office is the official voice of Quakerism in the United Nations headquarters. There is a second QUNO office in Geneva, Switzerland; support for that office is provided by European Quakers. QUNO is overseen by the Friends World Committee for Consultation. AFSC carries out many programs around the world.
English Quakers on a Barbados plantation. Image courtesy of New York Public LibraryBuying items that are fair trade, organic, locally made or cruelty-free are some of the ways in which consumers ...
The Peaceable Kingdom (c. 1834) by Edward Hicks. The testimony of peace (a.k.a. testimony for peace or testimony against war) is the action generally taken by members of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) for peace and against participation in war.