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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
War
Man
Three
Prison
Everyone
Could
Federal
Participating
Quaker
Quakers
Fellow
Fellow Man
Knows
Accept
Because
Am
Been
Years
Against
Sentenced
Ground
Conscientious
Pepsi is the second-most-recognized beverage brand in the world after Coke, and eighteen of PepsiCo's other brands, which include Tropicana, Gatorade, and Quaker Oats, are billion-dollar businesses in their own right.
John Seabrook
World
Own
Coke
Other
Oats
Pepsi
Beverage
Quaker
Brand
Brands
Eighteen
After
Which
Businesses
Include
Right
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
Time
Mother
Father
Own
State
Ancestors
Delaware
Born
Crossed
My Own
Troops
Quaker
Baked
George
Bread
Your
Washington
Slave
I know my father believed and my mother believed in and supported the suffrage movement, and I remember my mother taking me to suffrage meetings held in the home of a Quaker family that lived not far from us.
Alice Paul
Home
Family
Me
Remember
Mother
Father
Meetings
Taking
Supported
Quaker
Know
Movement
Far
Us
Held
Lived
Believed
Suffrage
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
Day
Active
Kids
Stay
Eat
Minutes
Something
Outside
Quaker
Least
Encourage
Up
Play
Right
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
Me
Gay
Matter
Values
Black
Spring
Rather
Instilled
Quaker
Were
Upbringing
Did
Being
Rooted
Grandparents
Who
Activism
Fundamentally
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
Family
Me
Political
Religious
Angeles
Rather
Quaker
Calling
Los
Los Angeles
Up
Than
Being
Grew
However, I spent most of my time in a Quaker school.
Brian De Palma
Time
School
Spent
My Time
Quaker
Most
However
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
Parents
Gone
Back
Secretary
Spent
Gilbert
Some
Student
Had
Hostel
Quaker
Geneva
She
Been
Years
Links
Close
Where
While
Her
Margaret
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
Those
Abhorrence
Towards
Feels
Days
Quaker
Looked
Even
Now
Shudder
Slavery
Philadelphia
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 Foster
Speak
Word
Appropriate
Worship
Perfectly
Quaker
Lord
Context
Timely
Person
Any
Congregation
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
Good
You
Science
Those
Aptitude
About
Good Thing
Catastrophe
Quaker
Schools
Encourage
Subjects
Which
Show
Games
Thing
My father came from a Quaker family. His father was a professional artist who did portraits - very traditional, a lot of religious subjects.
Roger Penrose
Family
Father
Religious
Quaker
Came
Traditional
His
Lot
Subjects
Very
Did
Artist
Who
Professional
Portraits
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
You
Church
Parents
Christian
Everything
Neither
Would
Something
Divine
Quaker
Call
Did
Needed
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