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Quakers have a well-earned reputation for social justice and Christian witness. These blog posts explore those issues from a contemporary perspective.
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The spiritual path to civil disobedience (Friends Journal)
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Against Being Positive! (Quakernomics)
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Comment by QuakerQuaker on December 30, 2009 at 5:18pm -
Mental ward injustices from 1940s brought to light by Quaker and other pacificists
In September of 1942, Warren Sawyer, a 23-year-old conscientious objector, reported for his volunteer assignment as an attendant at a state mental hospital. The young Quaker was... assigned to work in... [the] Philadelphia State Hospital, best known as Byberry.... "If we COs do nothing about this place to improve it," Sawyer continued, "our stay here has been to no avail and we have accomplished nothing..." Posted by LizOpp
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