10.17.2008

Ten Reasons the World Would be a Better Place if Everyone Was a Quaker: V


Reason 5

World peace.

Quakers are pacifists. They believe that fighting violence with violence is wrong. They believe that human life is sacred - no exceptions. The pacifism of many Quakers is very active: they're peacemakers, and work for peace using nonviolent resistance and other methods, methods that halt the spiral of violence rather than perpetuate it.

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