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Arguments for peacemakers for those who claim a strong militaty ensures peace.
 
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PendleHillLibrary | Jan 12, 2024 |
John Woolman was born in 1720 of Quaker parents in Burlington County, New Jersey. His call to preach the Quaker way happened when in his mid-twenties and journeyed extensively throughout the American colonies. His Journal—a recognised American classic-- portrays an ethical sensitivity comparable to that of St Francis or Albert Schweitzer, and his keen sense of social justice speaks directly to today’s affluent and increasingly divided mass society. His essays widely influenced social thought both in the United States and in England where he was much esteemed by figures such as the essayist Charles Lamb and Samuel Coleridge.
Woolman’s analyst of the roots of social evil carefully trace individual responsibility from motive to action and follow the ever-widening consequences of that action. In his essay ‘’ A Plea for the Poor’’ (published posthumously in 1774), he relates poverty to wasteful consumption, bringing the rich and powerful to account and calls for simplicity as a style of life. Published in 1754, his ‘essay ’Considerations on Keeping Negroes’’ published in 1754 and one of the earliest attacks on slavery, he confronts the corruption of the oppressors and the demoralization of the oppressed, and he even raises the question of reparations to the Blacks. This edition of the Journal includes Woolman’s discussion on tax refusal as a form of anti-war protest and civil disobedience. An edition of Woolman's Journal is also published by Pendle Hill (pamphlet 357).
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ExeterQuakers | 2 autres critiques | Aug 13, 2022 |
Urgently needed is a large scale program of research and planning for genuine alternatives to military defense. This would bring new insight and energy to nonviolent resistance.
 
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PendleHillLibrary | 2 autres critiques | Apr 20, 2022 |
The editor of Woolman’s journal and essays examines the significance of this influential Quaker for us today.
 
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PendleHillLibrary | 2 autres critiques | Apr 20, 2022 |

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Œuvres
9
Membres
435
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#56,232
Évaluation
½ 4.4
Critiques
10
ISBN
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