US Friends speak on Donald Trump win
‘We must confront oppression wherever we find it.’ AFSC pledge, following the re-election of Donald Trump as president of the USA.
Quakers in the US have urged the US president Donald Trump ‘to uphold the US Constitution, to comply with national and international laws, and to respect the rights and dignity of all people’.
The call came in a statement from Friends Committee for National Legislation (FCNL) welcoming ‘the conclusion’ of the 2024 elections as ‘broadly fair, free, safe, and peaceful’. It was encouraged by the millions of people who voted, it said, and looked forward to working with the incoming 119th Congress. However, it was called ‘to raise a grave warning of the threats we see’ in Donald Trump’s re-election. These include ‘renewed threats… to the dignity and lives of millions of people in our country and around the world’. The organisation pledged to ‘work relentlessly… [for] a more just, peaceful, and sustainable world’.
The American Friends Service Committee (AFSC)echoed the pledge in a statement on 6 November after Donald Trump’s win was declared. ‘As we face US-backed genocide in Gaza, expanding militarism, escalating racism and xenophobia, and existential dangers posed by climate change, it is more important than ever that we stay grounded in our vision of a better world. We must confront oppression wherever we find it.’
