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Historians generally agree that the Quakers have wielded an influence for good far out of proportion to their numbers as they have reached out to the poor, oppressed, and suffering. Friends were leaders in the abolition of slavery. They are champions for the rights of women. Their greatest contribution has been in the realm of peace-making as they seek to live "in the spirit which takes away the occasion for war."
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The current crisis between the colonies and England has Quakers concerned. Violence, no matter the reason or the cause, is wrong. The fact that both the colonists and the English have resorted to violence makes both sides equally wrong and at fault. Still, England has shown an unwillingness to be tolerant and show no respect toward the concerns of the colonists. Though no longer involved in politics, some Quakers have been seen trying to mediate between the two groups.
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Charges of Antinomianism, a lack of Moral Law, were raised against the Quakers. As with the Ranters and the Adamites, a form of holy nudism was practiced by some of these early Quakers as a rejection of the worldly values of Society. These individuals helped to contributed to the general feeling of unrest among the general public.
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On the other side it´s ... possible to consider the Quakers as a kind of humanistic religion in the sense of Erich Fromm. In this view mysticism includes social and political activities. For instance the German quaker Heinz Röhr, who held the Cary Lecture in 1992, saw himself as a Friend between Marx and mysticism.
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Two-hundred years ago the abolition of the slave trade came about largely because of the dedicated campaigns of Quakers during the previous fifty years. Most of their contemporaries accepted that it was necessary for international trade that black human beings should be transported in chains, closely packed together, to work as slaves in the West Indies.
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The perceptions outsiders have held of Quakers has included friendly and hostile elements. In his campaign for president in 1928, for example, Herbert Hoover's religion came under attack as inappropriate for a commander in chief.
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