"Our account lit up, and many Quakers were sharing clips in Facebook groups," Juliet Prager, a spokeswoman for Quakers in Britain, said in an email exchange.
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After Stuyvesant sent word that no one in the town was to harbor the Quakers, 30 inhabitants, who were not themselves Quakers, put their signatures to a remarkable document.
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His order penalizing anyone who harbored Quakers provoked 31 residents of Flushing on Long Island — none of them Quakers themselves — to sign a remonstrance, a collective appeal to redress their grievance.
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Wang led the Quakers with seven points off the bench.
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Previously, almost everyone (except Quakers) accepted slavery and even genocide.
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Before the revolution, Quakers in Puritan Massachusetts were whipped and hanged.
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Abolitionist Quakers refused to trade in products made with slave labor.
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They were Quakers, slaves, people with criminal backgrounds, or outspoken women.
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A.J. Brodeur had 25 points and 10 rebounds for the Quakers.
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The Quakers here are having an effect on all of us.
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And why not ask contemporary Quakers their thoughts on the matter?
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If you're moved to share was what the real Quakers said.
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Atheist Quakers tend to be quite firm in their lack of belief, whereas Quakers who call themselves theists are often contentedly uncertain about the nature of God's existence or character, as is noted by Mr Dandelion.
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An offshoot of Quakers, the Shakers began in England in the 1740s.
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The Quakers needed a whole lot more against the red-hot Wildcats.
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Easier said than done — unless you're familiar with the Quakers, that is.
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Like other landowners of the time, the Quakers owned African-American slaves.
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Quakers and Mennonites were excused from the draft even in those early years.
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Those are all border towns, and the Quakers would house…hide the blacks.
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Fully 43% of Quakers in Britain do not profess a belief in God.
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And the Quakers have gone underground and are running the underground female railroad.
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He was taken in by Quakers, then sent to a school in Scotland.
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The Quakers were led by Brodeur with 24 on 216-for-663 shooting.
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Today the Quakers are remembered mainly for their pacifism and support for abolition.
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" The Quakers thus declared themselves to be, like God, "no respecter of persons.
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The Quakers had dropped 15 in a row overall in the series before Tuesday.
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Stuyvesant's superiors forced him to permit Quakers to live and worship in the colony.
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The signers included Baptists, Methodists, Presbyterians, Episcopalians, Unitarians, Quakers, Muslims, Jews, Sikhs and Hindus.
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Lay did not resist when his fellow Quakers threw him out of the building.
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New faculty members who are not Quakers attend a two-day workshop on Quakerism.
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But there is also an important difference between the Quakers and today's pronoun protesters.
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They aimed to appeal to the morality of fellow Quakers through the golden rule.
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" · Quakers believed that everyone, including African-American slaves, was "equal in the sight of God.
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But the Quakers got hot, hitting consecutive three-pointers to grab a 17-10 lead.
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Quakers' leading scorer A.J. Brodeur was held scoreless and picked up three first-half fouls.
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Brodeur (21) and Betley (232) anchored the Quakers as they led 222-30 at halftime.
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Disparaged and abandoned by his fellow Quakers, Lay eventually helped win the debate over slavery.
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Penn — The Quakers have four guys who average at least 20183 points per game. 65.
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But Dingle redeemed himself with a 3-pointer as the Quakers closed within 41-33.
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This article speaks about Quakers as though we are extinct, which we are definitely not.
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He is also clerk of Menallen Monthly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers).
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Modern practitioners of pronoun politics can learn a thing or two from the early Quakers.
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Eventually, the Quakers abandoned this practice of total isolation because it was driving prisoners mad.
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In the late 20thcentury Quakers became associated with liberal theology, anti-racism, and other progressive attitudes.
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Some early American Quakers had slaves; after the Revolution followers of the faith became passionate abolitionists.
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A.J. Brodeur had 19 points, 10 rebounds, four assists, and three blocked shots for the Quakers.
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The Quakers also controlled the boards early before finishing the half even at 20 boards apiece.
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He predicted that for Quakers and for America, slave-keeping would be a long, destructive burden.
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According to the Quakers, both sides are right: Language reflects, as well as transforms, social realities.
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He agrees that there is an anomaly in treating Anglicans, Jews and Quakers differently from other faiths.
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Though the war had ended, political instability led Quakers in the area to side with the Loyalist.
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Goodman hit two free throws with 6.2 seconds left to give the Quakers a 78-72 lead.
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Randall estimates that only about one-third of the 43 employees at the Friends Committee are Quakers.
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Hoover was the son of devout Quakers who lived in the frontier village of West Branch, Iowa.
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Quakers were generally reviled at the time for their strange, spiritually induced behavior — "quaking" and the like.
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After a missed shot by Diallo, Dingle scored in the lane for a 15-point Quakers advantage.
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English Quakers gave them enough money to pay for their tickets and food on the journey to Germany.
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The U.S. version of solitary started long ago -- with the Quakers, surprisingly enough, at Pennsylvania's Eastern State Penitentiary.
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The school was established in 1799 by the Philadelphia Quakers as a "safe haven" for young Quaker students.
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The Quakers, an N.H.L. franchise, played for a season in 1930-20113, but quit after a dreadful campaign.
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The area of the Hempstead Plains that became Westbury village was settled by English Quakers in the 1650s.
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An earlier version also misstated the length of the workshop for new faculty members who are not Quakers.
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I would look for covered bridges on the road, round barns built by utopian Quakers and Victorian houses.
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The Quakers have gone underground, and are running an escape route to Canada, as — I suspect — they would.
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He cited Quakers, who opposed the Vietnam War but were still required to pay taxes that funded military spending.
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He issued an edict forbidding his subjects from harbouring Quakers, whom he abhorred, on pain of imprisonment or eviction.
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However, only 7.2% of students at Westtown School identify as Quakers, and the school admits students of all faiths.
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Sometimes called Mecca for Quakers, the institution was founded in 1930 as a retreat for people of all religions.
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He was previously an assistant with the Quakers for 10 seasons under Fran Dunphy, the current coach at Temple.
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Mascots include the Frogs (Maret), the Quakers (Sidwell) and the Mighty Hoppers, a reference to grasshoppers (Georgetown Day School).
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The rulers of the New England colonies occasionally went so far as to hang Quakers who showed up there.
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The Society of Friends (Quakers) was a nonconforming sect championing social ethics rooted in the biblical ideal of love.
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The process takes cues from several sources, including reform Judaism, Islam, the Quakers, Mennonites, and Indigenous people in Canada.
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As long as Quakers owned slaves, he would use his body and his words to disrupt their hypocritical routines.
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On the Quakers' next possession after a timeout, Dingle hit a 3-pointer and the deficit was 48-47.
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Her mother, the former Sarah Noel-Buxton, was descended from a prominent family that included missionaries, abolitionists, and Quakers.
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I always feel like we're Amish or Quakers in some little village where we just have our own system.
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Many forms of religious practice make use of silence; some, such as that of Quakers, may consist of little else.
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The big shoulders statement is literally true — a remnant of his career as a college fullback for the Penn Quakers.
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Some Quakers disapprove of the militaristic lyrics about "bombs bursting in air," especially given the US's long history of warfare.
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Penn's Eddie Scott made two free throws to give the Quakers a 79-77 lead with 1:40 to go.
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While modern activists argue that equality demands displays of equal respect toward others, the Quakers demonstrated conscientious disrespect toward everyone.
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Although the Quakers remained relatively intact while their stance on slavery shifted, some denominations fractured to keep slavery in place.
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In other words, all faiths would acquire the status (and the corresponding obligations) long enjoyed by the Anglicans, Jews and Quakers.
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Americans no longer hang Quakers on Boston Common, but abortion and the death penalty remain hot topics, and fundamentally religious ones.
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Iterations of Magie's game were played by Quakers living in Atlantic City, New Jersey, where Darrow came into contact with it.
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The indigenous, matriarchal Lenapes got short shrift; Quakers and Jews were not accepted originally, until the West India Company overruled Gov.
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"The religious leaders in the community were up in arms about the Quakers," Charles Gehring, translator of the documents, told me.
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She joined the more radical Hicksite branch of the Quakers when the religious movement split at the end of the decade.
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Jehovah's Witnesses, Mennonites, the Amish, and Quakers are all considered Peace Churches who are opposed to any kind of military service.
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Not all of us are bent on changing people's beliefs; in fact, atheist Quakers attend services with theists regularly and happily.
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Consider the 17th-century Quakers, who also suspected that the rules of grammar stood between them and a society of equals.
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Villanova became entangled in foul trouble with 12 overall before the break, and the Quakers held a 32-28 advantage at halftime.
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Lobbying, often thought of in connection with big business and backroom deals, also might not fit with the view of the Quakers.
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Late in life, he joined the Quakers and wrote almost exclusively for their publications, once self-publishing a list of odd aphorisms.
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Vining was selected in part because she was a Quaker — a circle of Japanese Quakers surrounded the royal family — and a widow.
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Dingle and Betley each knocked down a trey and the Quakers extended their lead back to 64-52 with 6:20 left.
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AJ Brodeur led the Quakers with 18 points and 14 rebounds while Jordan Dingle added 18 points and Devon Goodman had 16.
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The Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) does not ask us to subscribe to specific dogmas, but rather to let our lives speak.
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AJ Brodeur led the Quakers with 210 points and 246 rebounds while Jordan Dingle added 222 points and Devon Goodman had 23.
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One might expect principled egalitarians like the Quakers to celebrate a linguistic process whereby all social ranks experienced an increase in dignity.
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When it was Lay's turn to speak, he rose to address the Quakers, many of whom had grown rich and bought African slaves.
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As the Quakers (13-15) jumped to a 28-19 lead in the first half, players on Penn's bench began flexing their muscles.
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QUAKER LOBBYIST TALKS PEACE, CLIMATE AND MORE: The Hill sat down with Diane Randall, executive secretary of the Friends Committee on National Legislation (FCNL), to talk about what Quakers lobby about in Washington, D.C. While Randall's group sticks to peace-building -- long a main goal for Quakers -- as its top priority, FCNL has branched out into climate change, justice, immigration and more.
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In England, prominent Anglicans joined forces with Quakers, Baptists, Presbyterians, Methodists, Congregationalists and other faith groups to form the world's first anti-slavery movement.
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Four hundred years ago, when Puritans, Quakers, Moravians and Catholics fled Europe to practice their faith in this new land, their religious concerns varied.
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The three-year renovation of James Turrell's beloved skyspace at MoMA PS21 might have tried even the patience of the Quakers who inspired it.
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Her parents were Quakers and conscientious objectors, and until she was 11 she grew up in a commune in the mountains of North Carolina.
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And contrary to Stuyvesant's fears that they were a danger, the Quakers went on to become some of the great pacifists of American history.
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Opinion It was September 1738, and Benjamin Lay had walked 20 miles, subsisting on "acorns and peaches," to reach the Quakers' Philadelphia Yearly Meeting.
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For them, her uncompromising defense of Roe was comparable to telling a group of Quakers, "I'm in favor of war," without even mentioning preconditions.
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Villanova topped the Quakers by 25 and the Hawks by 33 to extend its Big 5 winning streak to a record 16 straight wins.
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What set the Quakers apart from other evangelical sects was their rejection of conventional modes of address — above all, their peculiar use of pronouns.
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In the developing world, especially Africa and Latin America, the Quakers have come to look more like other Christian denominations, with pastors and set services.
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By 33, revenue stood at roughly $7.92 billion, based on sales numbers from the "Big 3" cereal providers — General Mills, Kellogg's and PepsiCo's Quakers Foods.
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Descended from the sun goddess, Amaterasu, and son of the man-god in whose name Japan waged total war, Akihito was educated by humble Quakers.
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In the past, Communists, civil rights leaders, feminists, Quakers, folk singers, war protesters and others have been on the receiving end of law enforcement surveillance.
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Mr. Muhs, the physics teacher, ultimately got his software back up and running in time for Ballard Beavers' tip-off against the Franklin High Quakers.
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On the other hand, you have people telling us that Islam is a religion of love and peace — rather like the Quakers, but less aggressive.
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In the US, solitary confinement began in the 19th century among the Quakers, who would separate people from the community when they did something wrong.
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The idea that Jefferson brought ice cream back to this country has been discredited and there are those who say we are indebted to the Quakers.
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Initially led by a quirky mix of Quakers and evangelical Christians, it pioneered innovative tactics, including the widespread boycott of sugar, tireless lobbying and media propaganda.
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Ms. Meinicke, 52, is the fiscal manager for the Friends General Conference, the national organization for the Religious Society of Friends, known as Quakers, in Philadelphia.
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Dissident Quakers impatient with their faith's passivity, they shipped to New York from England in 1774 and sailed up the Hudson, reaching Hancock nine years later.
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Some aristocrats and Quakers, for example, financed many refugee children's passage to the UK. There's a lot of talk about Trump and his team having fascist tendencies.
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Though Marvin served in the Medical Corps during World War II, the judge suggested that these young Quakers might find another country to live out their ideals.
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Despite being in foul trouble much of the second half, AJ Brodeur also had 17 points and 10 rebounds for the Quakers, who improved to 3-2.
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Pepsi, for its part, has reported growth with Bubly seltzer, its answer to LaCroix, and has a stable of popular products including Frito-Lay and Quakers. 5.
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A police spokeswoman said an operation was underway at the station in Quakers Hill, a suburb 40 km (25 miles) west of the city's central business district.
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As the legend goes, a group of Quakers who, on a stormy night in 1809, nearly plunged into the Batsto river but were saved by the spectral creature.
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Booth drained a deep trey with 1.1 seconds remaining to close the gap to three, and Villanova had a chance to tie the game after a Quakers turnover.
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While we wait, it's worth remembering that colonial Rhode Island had attracted so many Jews, Quakers, Baptists and other denominations because non-Puritans were persecuted in neighboring Massachusetts.
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Randall's group is the lobbying arm of the Religious Society of Friends, or the Quakers, who have a more than three-century history of protesting war and violence.
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But Peter Stuyvesant, the director-general of the colony of New Netherland, put that toleration to the test when a group of Quakers arrived in Manhattan in 1657.
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German Quakers, Anabaptists, Lutherans and Reformed flocked to Pennsylvania, and so did English Baptists, Scotch-Irish Presbyterians, Dutch Mennonites and Reformed, Irish Catholics, as well as Sephardic Jews.
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Also on the list are other American groups like the Quakers' American Friends Service Committee, the feminist group Code Pink and the United States Campaign for Palestinian Rights.
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Oregon State would expand that advantage to as many as 210 points in the final minutes before the Quakers made a late run to make things look more respectable.
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Devon Goodman led Penn (4-103) with 13 points, while Antonio Woods added 11 for the Quakers, who lost their second straight after starting the season with four wins.
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Founded in 1864 by Quakers, Swarthmore is part of a tri-college consortium with Bryn Mawr and Haverford College and also offers cross-registration with the University of Pennsylvania.
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Pinning down what Quakers actually believe about anything is a "very difficult question", according to Ben Pink Dandelion, who runs a Quaker studies centre at the University of Birmingham.
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A few days ago in Maine, Central Maine Power responded to four Quakers protesting its opposition to a pro-solar-power bill by having them arrested for criminal trespass.
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" As he put it to me, "The coëxistence of spirituality, an interest in Krishnamurti, in Quakers, and in twenty hours spent at Berghain—you know, that's not mutually exclusive.
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We are living among a group of Quakers, many of them American or Canadian, some born here, some here for a while like us, still more coming and staying.
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While Native American inhabitants in this region date back to 3000 B.C., what is now known as the town of Monteverde was founded and named by those original Quakers.
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Hillsman scored the go-ahead basket with 19.1 seconds left as the Aggies (22-11) finished the game on a 153-1 run to beat the Quakers (22-8).
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Many Quakers, Randall said, feel a motivation to make changes in the world, which could manifest itself in the choice to become a teacher, a social worker or a scientist.
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Through the 280s, Quakers in the United States established retreats based on a similar principle: that respite and patient care were the best remedy for "mental breakdowns" of all kinds.
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It includes several American groups such as Jewish Voice for Peace, the Quakers' American Friends Service Committee, the feminist group Code Pink and the United States Campaign for Palestinian Rights.
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Like today's egalitarians, the Quakers understood that what we say, as well as how we say it, can play a crucial part in creating a more just and equal society.
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Princeton, which beat Penn at home, 68-65, in overtime last week in the Ivy League opener, had a 55-34 rebounding advantage over the Quakers (10-6, 0-2).
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"I had a debt to repay," he told The Times of London, recalling the efforts of Quakers and other Christian groups to rescue Jewish children threatened by the rise of Nazism.
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ET, Fox Sports 2 ABOUT PENNSYLVANIA (22002-22): The Quakers are coming off one of their most exciting victories in recent memory - a four-overtime win against Monmouth on Saturday night.
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Originally settled by Quakers, the township is the self-proclaimed "crossroads of the heart of New Jersey," 22016 miles upriver from Philadelphia and about 22007 miles southwest of New York City.
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That experience, as well as the persistence of religious persecution in the colonies against Catholics and Quakers, persuaded the drafters of our Constitution to protect against religious intolerance clearly and conspicuously.
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With only half the cash in hand one month before the ship was set to sail, a group of American Quakers unexpectedly offered to supply the rest of the required funds.
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You had incredible sacrifices by Quakers who were willing to put their very lives at risk to help build coalitions with black slaves and escaped slaves to build the Underground Railroad.
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This is why Quakers have asked the Friends Committee on National Legislation to promote and respect the rights, safety, and dignity of all immigrants, refugees, and migrants in our daily work.
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Stephen Thompson Jr. added 242 points, and Kylor Kelley hit for 10 for Oregon State, which outshot the Quakers 50.9 percent to 35.6 percent and owned a 39-32 edge in rebounding.
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No. 217 Kansas State 25, Penn 20 The Wildcats used a stellar defensive effort to defeat the Quakers in the second semifinal of the Paradise Jam tournament in St. Thomas, Virgin Islands.
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The camp staff included Quakers who were conscientious objectors, he said, and for a work-study program he was paired with a Quaker architect who was in charge of buildings and grounds.
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And that in 1774, the First Continental Congress almost fell apart in its first five minutes because a couple of Episcopalians refused to pray with a bunch of shifty Quakers and Congregationalists.
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Together, they formed part of a large and close-knit family whose members ranged from Episcopalians to Quakers, impoverished to wealthy, fair-skinned and blue-eyed to dark-skinned and curly-haired.
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A small number of Quakers sought refuge in one of these towns: Vlissingen, later Flushing (which, it's worth noting, is today one of the most ethnically and religiously mixed communities in America).
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Other Quakers produced pamphlets citing examples from more than 30 dead and living languages to argue that their use of "thee" and "thou" was grammatically — as well as theologically and politically — correct.
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With an influence on world affairs that far outstrips their numbers (below 500,000), the Quakers have won respect for their willingness to undertake a quest for truth whose end-point cannot be prejudged.
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The same applies if you gave guns to a group of people at a soccer game versus at a figure skating competition or a group of Quakers versus a group of former felons.
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We're introduced to Benjamin Lay, who in 1738 exhorted his fellow Quakers to renounce slavery in a dramatic speech involving a hollowed-out Bible and a pig's bladder filled with crimson pokeberry juice.
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ABOUT PENNSYLVANIA (2-2): The Quakers have alternated wins and losses this season and are coming off a two-point setback at Navy despite four of their five scorers finishing in double digits.
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So in 1844, as the national conversation on slavery intensified, the 17th-century Quaker petition was finally published, and helped pivot Quakers toward being the leaders against slavery they are known as today.
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The real Peter Stuyvesant forbade all religious observances except those of the Dutch Reformed Church and sought to prevent Jews and Quakers from entering the colony, according to The Encyclopedia of New York City.
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My dad wouldn't even sign my sex-ed permission slip at first, and it was only when I begged, terrified of being singled out with the Quakers or something, that he let me attend.
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The sisters would move to Rochester, where they would find patrons in Amy and Isaac Post, two prominent Quakers deeply involved in the progressive politics of the day, including agitation for abolition and suffrage.
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Villanova will take on three Philadelphia-area rivals this week in the La Salle Explorers, Penn Quakers, and Saint Joseph's Hawks before gearing up to face a top-five Kansas squad later this month.
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Unlike Quakers, who have never lobbied for a "law" to forbid all war, many Catholics and Evangelicals are lobbying hard for laws to end all access to abortion, at any stage, under any circumstances.
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A 3-pointer from Penn's Jackson Donahue ended the Oregon State run and began a Quakers' comeback that saw them climb to within 50-45 on a layup by Woods with 10:42 to play.
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There is a contingent who positively deny the existence of God: they now account for 14.5% of British Quakers, up from just 3% in 1990, according to research by Jennifer May Hampton of Cardiff University.
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Alabama had a chance to win, but Kira Lewis Jr. missed two free throws with 2.4 seconds left to enable the Quakers to edge the Crimson Tide on opening night of the college basketball season.
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The oldest members of the Monteverde Friends Meeting are Quakers like Lucky Guindon and Marvin Rockwell who came here in the early 1950s to farm and over time began working to protect the cloud forest.
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Yet unlike the early Quakers, these modern egalitarians want to embrace, rather than resist, pronouns' honorific aspect, and thus to see trans-, nonbinary and genderqueer people as equally entitled to the "title" of their choosing.
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The English Toleration Act (1689) put Anglicans and Nonconformists on a footing in specified areas of public life; but it excluded Catholics and Unitarians, accepted Quakers only conditionally, and barred all but Anglicans from many posts.
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The Robinsons, devout Quakers and uncompromising abolitionists, ran a Merino sheep farm and orchard here, and joined a network of Northerners that helped form the Underground Railroad, aiding enslaved African-Americans in their quest for freedom.
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A poised Quakers team took it to the top-seeded Jayhawks early, looking like a team that truly believed it had a chance to pull off the unthinkable: a No. 16 seed beating a No. 1.
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If I've learned anything in living among the Quakers of Costa Rica, it is that intentional and focused dwelling in quiet is a space at once empty and rich with possibility, for both individuals and communities.
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As a little person and as a man thought eccentric at best and more commonly deranged or insane, he was ridiculed and dismissed, even among Quakers who were ostensibly committed to an ideal of spiritual equality.
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It once was a gathering place for the black community that lived, thanks to segregation, south of Nantucket Town, and it was also open to escaped slaves, Native Americans, Quakers, and educators and abolitionists of any race.
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