Friends & the Racial Crisis

This pamphlet will review the record of racism with an eye to Quaker practices which have fallen far short of Quaker ideals. Although the review is critical, I hope that it is not self-righteous or judgmental. Friends, like other groups, have not escaped the irony of being influenced by historical movements and cultural forces which undercut our faith. Every human being, and every group which comes to call itself a "people," falls short, at one time or another, of the high principles which ...