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Advices, queries and the database state
William Heath has confidence that Quaker resilience is up to the challenge of the modern state
There must be something about the Quaker determination to focus on injustice and do something constructive and compassionate about it which accounts for the Society’s extraordinary record on social justice and civil liberties. I am still only now learning about the scope and detail of that history, but every week I meet plain‑speaking Quakers with a good‑natured and resilient self‑confidence who are linked to extraordinary achievements. One might be a former ambulance driver from the Russo‑Finnish war, another a campaigner for the accountability of US military bases. As I write, a local Friend is on the receiving end of Israeli bombardment as a peace witness in Israel/Palestine.
