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Quoting the Past: The answer for Friends
The answer for Friends is “to deepen and broaden our sense of the presence of God as we have seen Him in Christ, until we are fully aware that love of God and love of men cannot be separated. In the measure that we become unsegregated from within, we shall desegregate outwardly.”
— Errol Elliott, lecture to Indiana Yearly Meeting, 1968.
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Quoting the Past: No Slaves Amongst Us
"No slaves amongst us, and those few Blacks who have had their freedom secured are provided for as to food and raiment."
—Fairfax (Virginia) Quarterly Meeting, 1794
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Quoting the Past: Sarah Harrison
“All [Quakers] we have conversed with agree it is not right to hold their fellow-creature in bondage and wish they were all free.... They say much against slaveholding. But, when any thing is said to promote their freedom, they soon turn and say they are they are not fit for freedom because they are such poor helpless creatures.”
—Sarah Harrison, Quaker traveling minister, 1788.
Source: Friends Miscellany, Vol. XI, March 1838, p. 104.
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