https://philadelphiaencyclopedia.org/essays/american-friends-service-committee/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=american-friends-service-committee Connecting the Past with the Present, Building Community, Creating a Legacy Mon, 28 Feb 2022 21:49:08 +0000 hourly 1 https://philadelphiaencyclopedia.org/essays/american-friends-service-committee/comment-page-1/#comment-1566494 Mon, 09 Mar 2020 00:21:44 +0000 https://philadelphiaencyclopedia.org/?p=30860#comment-1566494 I have so much respect for the work that the Friends Service Committee has done for peace and social justice. I’m surprised that no mention at all was made of the Committee’s long term support of LGBTQ rights, dating back at least to the early 1970s. As for Quaker Bayard Rustin, organizer of the 1963 March on Washington, he was pushed out of Black civil rights movement not because of his pacifist views, but because he was gay, something the movement was not yet ready to accept.

]]> https://philadelphiaencyclopedia.org/essays/american-friends-service-committee/comment-page-1/#comment-1492552 Tue, 10 Apr 2018 13:22:14 +0000 https://philadelphiaencyclopedia.org/?p=30860#comment-1492552 To whom in the 18th century among the Quakers did the pamphlet authors attribute the phrase “speak truth to power”? Warner Mifflin the abolitionist? Or Anthony Benezet?

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