 Quakers have no creed nor dogma. Friends do havefive testimonies that are beliefs lived into action. They are Simplicity, Peace,Integrity, Community, and Equality. Quakers In Brief What Friends Believe Facts About Friends Comprehensive Index on Quakerism A Quaker who made adifference:
Quaker, Swarthmore, University of Pennsylvania Ph.D., chief strategist for the militant suffrage wing, founder of the Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage and the National Woman's Party, author of the Equal Rights Amendment, organizer of the 1913 parade in Washington, D.C., jailed 3 times in England and 3 times in the U.S., waged hunger strike in prison, hospitalized, force-fed and treated as insane, law degree in 1922, international organizer, influenced charter of the United Nations.
| And when all my hopes in men were gone, so that I had nothing outwardly to help me, nor could I tell what to do, then, oh! Then I heard a voice which said, 'There is One, even Christ Jesus that can speak to thy condition.' And when I heard it my heart did leap for joy.
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