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Quakers almost as good as colored. They call themselves friends and you can trust them every time.

Quakers are known for wanting to give back. Ban the bomb and the civil rights movement and the native American struggle for justice - those things were very, very front-burner in my childhood, as were the ideas of working for peace and if you have more than you need, then you share it with people who don't.

But, you know again, getting back to what a group like ours might represent - the cleanliness thing.

I am still looking for the modern equivalent of those Quakers who ran successful businesses, made money because they offered honest products and treated their people decently... This business creed, sadly, seems long forgotten.

However, I spent most of my time in a Quaker school.

The Quakers don't believe in music or art; they think it's a vanity.

I grew up in Los Angeles in a Quaker family, and for me being Quaker was a political calling rather than a religious one.

The Quaker upbringing was not strict, but it was frugal. Extremely frugal. One was always encouraged to give away one's worldly goods.

My grandfather was a practising Quaker. My father was a nihilist. But nihilism, if you like, is the beginning of faith anyway.

I was a catastrophe at Science and Games, but the good thing about Quaker schools is that they encourage you in those subjects for which you show an aptitude.