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To add additional context, Quakers are also famously non-violent, even when met with violence against themselves: > Quakers are one of the three historic peace
by diggan 2y ago
To add additional context, Quakers are also famously non-violent, even when met with violence against themselves:
> Quakers are one of the three historic peace churches and therefore have taken seriously the call to loving enemies and the practice of non-violence.
https://quaker.org/peace-and-nonviolence/ https://quaker.org/peace-and-nonviolence/
- y33t 2y agoOne notable exception to this was Jeremiah Dixon, of the Mason-Dixon line. From Wikipedia: > "Jeremiah Dixon, happening upon a slave driver mercilessly beating a poor black woman. 'Thou must not do that!' he shouted. 'You be damned! Mind your own business,' came the reply. 'If thou doesn't desist, I'll thrash thee!' > Tall and powerful, Jeremiah seized the slave-driver's whip and gave him a soun thrashing. When he returned to Cockfield, the whip came too, and was one of the Quaker family's treasured possessions."
- sitkack 2y agoExcept Nixon. http://www.oldchathamquakers.org/blog/was-nixon-really-a-quaker http://www.oldchathamquakers.org/blog/was-nixon-really-a-qua...