Paine acknowledged that he was indebted to his Quaker background for his skepticism, but the Quakers ' esteem for plain speaking, a value expressed both explicitly and implicitly in The Age of Reason, influenced his writing even more.

Quakers in the United Kingdom are similarly accepting, and at their annual business meeting in July 2009, formally expressed support for same-sex marriage, and are now lobbying the government for the necessary legal changes.

By 1727 British Quakers had expressed their official disapproval of the slave trade.

In 1999, one committee of the New England Yearly Meeting ( NEYM ) of Friends ( Quakers ) expressed concern that this stanza could be seen as supporting Jewish deicide, the anti-Semitic belief that the Jewish people are collectively responsible for Jesus ' death.

Bentley expressed a desire to leave the NHL and play for the WHL's Saskatoon Quakers, where Doug had become coach.

Although the liberal views expressed in A Reasonable Faith were quickly and vociferously attacked by leading evangelical Quakers, liberal theology rapidly gained support and within ten years became the majority view.

Prison reform was another concern of Quakers at that time.

Many specific issues of concern to Quakers are dealt with by committees selected by Yearly Meetings.

These ranged from Royalists who wished to place King Charles II on the throne, to men like Oliver Cromwell, who wished to govern with a Parliament voted in by an electorate determined by property ownership, similar to that enfranchised before the civil war, to the Levellers, influenced by the writings of John Lilburne, who wanted parliamentary government based on an electorate constituted of every head of household ( normally though not necessarily male as was acknowledged in the Putney Debates ), through to other groups with smaller followings like the Fifth Monarchists, Gerrard Winstanley and the Diggers, the Ranters, and the Society of Friends ( Quakers ).

* 17th century – Early Quakers, such as Edward Burrough, make mention of tongues speaking in their meetings: " We spoke with new tongues, as the Lord gave us utterance, and His Spirit led us ".

The seven hundred Quakers who had been imprisoned under Richard Cromwell were released, though the government remained uncertain about the group's links with other, more violent, movements.

" Fox's aphorisms have found an audience beyond Quakers, with many other church groups using them to illustrate principles of Christianity.

At the same time, Quakers and others can relate to Fox's religious experience, and even those who disagree with him regard him as a pioneer.

Though Molokans are somewhat similar to the European Quakers and Mennonites — for their pacifism, communal organization, spiritual meetings, and sub-groupings — they are ethnically much closer to Doukhobors and Sabbatarians ( Subbotniki ) because they evolved from the same Russian Spiritual Christian movement of Khristovers and Ikonobors ( icon-wrestlers ), and migrated together with some intermarriage.

" Quakers " continued to be used interchangeably with " Phillies " from 1884 until 1890, when the team officially became known as the " Phillies ".

Although his family had been Quakers for four generations, he was expelled from the Religious Society of Friends because his involvement with a military force contradicted his faith's pacifistic nature.

Unitarian Universalists and Quakers still share many principles, notably that they are creedless religions with a long-standing commitment to social justice.

After 1800, Yankees ( along with some Quakers and others ) spearheaded most reform movements, including those for abolition of slavery, temperance in use of alcohol, increase in women's political rights, and improvement in women's education.

The free black community also established many schools for its children, with the help of Quakers.

Quakers traditionally refer to Wednesday as " Fourth Day " to avoid the pagan associations that exist with the name " Wednesday ".

The pacifist Pennsylvania Quakers had good relations with the Indians, but the steady growth of the white population compelled many Indians to move further west.

When Boone's oldest brother Israel also married a " worldling " in 1747, Squire Boone stood by his son and was therefore expelled from the Quakers, although his wife continued to attend monthly meetings with her children.

Historically, they have partnered with Quakers and Mennonites in their publications and other peace efforts.

Western settlement began in the 1720s and 1730s with Quakers, Scots-Irish, Germans and others moving south from Pennsylvania and Maryland and by English and African slaves moving upriver from Tidewater.

It has been argued that the suppression of the English monasteries and nunneries contributed as well to the spreading decline of that contemplative spirituality which once thrived in Europe, with the occasional exception found only in groups such as the Society of Friends (" Quakers ").

Paul and Susanna Mitchem became Quakers and immigrated to Harrison County from North Carolina in 1814, bringing with them 107 slaves they freed after arriving.

Gerkens ' land was owned by several others before a group of Quakers purchased it and expanded it to, with the intent of founding a Quaker community.

The Forbush Collection, named for Dr. Bliss Forbush, is composed of materials associated with the Quakers and slavery.

Also located in the village is Olney Friends School, a small co-educational boarding high school affiliated with the Religious Society of Friends ( Quakers ).

In the summer of 2008, the Quakers football home, Williams Stadium, underwent a major renovation, with new stadium lights and artificial playing field installed.

First settled before the year 1700 by Quakers who arrived in Pennsylvania with William Penn, Springfield was first recognized as a governmental entity in 1686.

Like the Quakers, the Brethren refused to take part in the war with the Spanish and, as a result, they were evicted from Georgia in 1739.

He fought like a fiend for the helpless and oppressed, worked for the abolition of slavery, helped the Quakers and Indians, and worked against the prosecution of witches.

* 1790 – The Religious Society of Friends, also known as Quakers, petitions U. S. Congress for abolition of slavery.

In the 17th century English Quakers and evangelical religious groups condemned slavery ( by then applied mostly to Africans ) as un-Christian ; in the 18th century, abolition was part of the message of the First Great Awakening in the Thirteen Colonies ; and in the same period, rationalist thinkers of the Enlightenment criticized it for violating the rights of man.

Quakers from Rhode Island were involved early in the abolition movement.

The ACS was a coalition made up mostly of evangelicals and Quakers who supported abolition, and Chesapeake slaveholders who understood that unfree labor did not constitute the economic future of the nation.

Hodgkin like many other Quakers was concerned both with the abolition of slavery and the reduction of the impact of western colonization on indigenous peoples around the world.

Earlier in the 19th century, one of the hottest issues for political and social reform was the abolition of slavery, and Stoke Newington and the Quakers, separately and together, played a prominent role in this.

Sarah was rebuked again in 1836 by Quakers when she tried to discuss abolition in a meeting.

Quakers have been a significant part of the movements for the abolition of slavery, promote equal rights for women, and peace.