Living Up to Our Radical Past
Slave labor was the economic foundation of the early United States, and yet, Daquanna Harrison reminds us, Quakers took up the cause of abolition—a stance we continue to take pride in to this day. She challenges Friends to consider, “Where is our great stand now?”
“We stand on our radical past,” Daquanna says, but Friends like Benjamin Lay and John Woolman were often not embraced by their peers. “Who are our radicals right now?” she asks, and suggests ways we can support them. “That might look like really standing with our trans siblings, beyond marches . . . If we are not doing big, hard work, then we are failing our Quaker ancestors.”
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