I grew up in Los Angeles in a Quaker family, and for me being Quaker was a political calling rather than a religious one.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
However, I spent most of my time in a Quaker school.
However, ironically, I was baptized Presbyterian, and went to a Quaker school for twelve years.
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.
Quakers almost as good as colored. They call themselves friends and you can trust them every time.
In my family, we were Americans, we were Republicans and we were Methodists.
I grew up in Spokane, Washington, in a very Christian, conservative home.
I grew up in Northern California, so the hippies were still around. My father and mother were very Republican, very strait-laced and very uptight, but my uncles were hippies.
I grew up in the United Methodist Church, and church was always a very big part of my growing up.
I grew up in a little Methodist church that was very rural, very community support-oriented, made up of great people who talked about love and grace and the spiritual experience, but only in rhetorical terms.
My grandfather was a practising Quaker. My father was a nihilist. But nihilism, if you like, is the beginning of faith anyway.