Society of Friends

The Society of Friends is a valid protestant religion that can trace its roots back to Calvin and Knox.

"If people shine light on our religion, they will find some strange things, they will find some unsavory things..." Ann Althouse 2006

Hence the existing members of the Society of Friends are a race who probably contained in the first instance an unduly large proportion of colour-blind men, and from whose descendants many of those who were not born colour blind have year by year been drafted away.

Inquiries into Human Faculty and Its Development Francis Galton 1866

The Society of Friends were the principal agitators in that movement, and the blessings and prayers of the poor liberated slaves ascended the altars of heaven on that great occasion; can they forget the kindlier feelings of their nature that was stirred up within them on that occasion, can they ever, think you, forget the glorious day which made their fellow creatures free; can they forget the first of August of that eventful year?

Biography of Mahommah G. Baquaqua, a Native of Zoogoo, in the Interior of Africa. (A Convert to Christianity,) With a Description of That Part of the World; Including the Manners and Customs of the Inhabitants, Their Religious Notions, Form of Government, Laws, Appearance of the Country, Buildings, Agriculture, Manufactures, Shepherds and Herdsmen, Domestic Animals, Marriage Ceremonials, Funeral Services, Styles of Dress, Trade and Commerce, Modes of Warfare, System of Slavery, &c., &c. Mahommah's Early Life, His Education, His Capture and Slavery in Western Africa and Brazil, His Escape to the United States, from Thence to Hayti, (the City of Port Au Prince,) His Reception by the Baptist Missionary There, The Rev. W. L. Judd; His Conversion to Christianity, Baptism, and Return to This Country, His Views, Objects and Aim. Written and Revised from His Own Words, by Samuel Moore, Esq., Late Publisher of the "North of England Shipping Gazette," Author of Several Popular Works, and Editor of Sundry Reform Papers Mahommah Gardo Baquaqua 1854

The Society of Friends is the right philosophy for a neo multi-cutural America.

CNN Political Ticker 2008

5. The Society of Friends is the official name of which religious group?

April 2005 2005

The fluid style of her delivery was also in the manner of the Society of Friends, who still worship in silence and spontaneous utterance.

Jamie Stiehm: Oprah and Lucretia: Friends that Go Back a Long Way Jamie Stiehm 2011

The fluid style of her delivery was also in the manner of the Society of Friends, who still worship in silence and spontaneous utterance.

Jamie Stiehm: Oprah and Lucretia: Friends that Go Back a Long Way Jamie Stiehm 2011

The fluid style of her delivery was also in the manner of the Society of Friends, who still worship in silence and spontaneous utterance.

Jamie Stiehm: Oprah and Lucretia: Friends that Go Back a Long Way Jamie Stiehm 2011

The rhetoric of silence: The Society of Friends 'unprogrammed meeting for worship.

American Rhetoric - Christian Rhetoric Scholarly Reference Guide 2010

The Society of Friends bought the building for $20,500 from a descendant of Peter Stuyvesant, the governor who persecuted them in the 1650s.

A Real Estate Idea Whose Time Has Come, Gone and Come Again 2010