Comments on: Richard Nixon and 12 Other Celebrity Quakers

By: Hyacinth

Hyacinth — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 20:22:31 +0000

Yeah, Kristen, that’s what I was thinking!

By: Kristen

Kristen — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 14:31:18 +0000

Having been convinced and married under the care of the Wilmington Monthly Meeting of Friends, I found both the article and its author’s motivation for writing it interesting. It’s always tricky to explain Quakerism to the outside world when most of them only know of Richard Nixon. Certainly not a shining example …

Thanks!

By: Laura H

Laura H — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 22:33:11 +0000

I’m personally a product of New Garden Friends School in Greensboro, NC, and it rocked the (meeting)house. The mascot of Guilford college (next to the school) was the Fighting Quaker. Qute a twisted sense of humor.
Wait, wasn’t there another Quaker president? I think he was James Madison.

By: James

James — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 17:42:00 +0000

That IS Edward R. Murrow, you idiots!!

By: sue

sue — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 06:29:00 +0000

Quakers was a derogatory term for the ‘Society of FRIENDS’. A religious sect of Christianity that eshewed pomp and circumstance such as the Catholics and Epicopalians practised. They don’t have pastors, per se. They were all equal, one of the reasons for their anti-slavery work. They were also called ‘plain people’ for their not wearing fussy clothes or jewelry. They were called Quakers because of their being lifted by the Holy Spirit. They were allowed to wear clothes made of good cloth, but cut in a plain style. I am a decendant of Friends who left England to practice their religion in the earliest years of what became the US. I am related to Richard Nixon, Bonnie Raitt and Cheryl Tiegs.

By: ivan

ivan — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 03:05:00 +0000

What the hell is a Quaker anyway? Is that like a Free Mason, or Stonecutter?

By: bob

bob — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 17:56:53 +0000

that is edward r. morrow

By: Carol

Carol — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 15:33:43 +0000

Alice Paul, the American suffragist, was also a Quaker.

By: Shannon

Shannon — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 20:22:46 +0000

I’m a Wilmington (now Bear) girl! St. Mark’s class of 99! I went to my first Quaker funeral (well, Quaker anything) a few months ago. It was one of the most touching ceremonies I’ve ever been to. It almost made me want to convert.

By: Shannon

Shannon — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 20:21:35 +0000