'We should examine our class prejudices as fearlessly as we try to examine our attitudes to race or sexual orientation.' Photo: from Pxhere

‘Our entitlement will not go away because we refuse to consider it!’

A touch of class: Maggie Allder on a societal divide

‘Our entitlement will not go away because we refuse to consider it!’

by Maggie Allder 18th June 2021

A couple of items in the Friend recently caught my attention. They were addressing changes at Britain Yearly Meeting. Both were calmly and clearly expressed, in the manner of Quakers. One was concerned that ‘Friends don’t have a worker perspective’, while the other talked of ‘reflection, discernment, and dialogue with staff and sub-committees’.