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7 Origin of the name Quaker

There are two stories for where the name Quaker came from. The first is that it was an insult. George Fox reported in his journal that, in 1650, on one of the many times he was arrested, Justice Bennet of Derby "first called us Quakers because we bid them tremble at the word of God." The second story is that Friends were observed to tremble from the emotion of providing ministry to their meeting, and were therefore termed Quakers.

8 Quaker organizations

• Friends General Conference
• Quaker Peace and Service
• American Friends Service Committee
• Friends Committee on National Legislation
• Britain Yearly Meeting
• Meeting for Sufferings

9 See also

• List of Quakers
• Quaker tapestry
• Nonviolence
• A Quaker Action Group
• Movement for a New Society
• Quaker views of homosexuality
• Pennsylvania, the Quaker state
• Doukhobors

10 Recommended reading

• Pym, Jim "Listening to the Light: How to bring Quaker simplicity and integrity into our lives".
• Bacon, Margaret H. "The Quiet Rebels: The Story of the Quakers in America"
• Brinton, Howard H. "friends for 350 years".
• ed. West, Jessamyn "The Quaker Reader"

11 External links

• Quaker Information Center
• Friends General Conference and its online resources library
• Friends United Meeting
• Evangelical Friends International
• Religious Society of Friends in Britain
• Religious Society of Friends Information
• Quakerfinder.org: find unprogrammed Meetings in U.S. & Canada
• Quakerbooks of FGC bookstore
• Quaker Electronic Archive
• Quaker Heritage Press Online Texts
• Open Directory Project: Religious Society of Friends
• Quakers, University of Virginia Religious Movements Project
• "Quaker-L & Quaker P(eace) mailing list"
• American Friends Service Committee
• Friends Committee on National Legislation
• Friends Schools
• Woodbrooke Quaker Study Centre, UK
• A Guide to Quaker Websites and Blogs

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