Society of Friends: Quick Facts

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Facts

Also Known As	Quakers • Friends Church
Areas Of Involvement	Christianity • mysticism • Inner Light
Related People	William Penn • George Fox • Mary Dyer

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Painting depicting a Quaker meeting around 1839, with men and women in plain clothing and hats seated on wooden benches in a simple meeting room.

George Fox preaching

Portrait of William Penn wearing a black wide-brimmed hat, white cravat, and brown coat, with shoulder-length white hair, shown from the chest up.

Exterior of a yellow house with one white house on either side.

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Illustration. Montage of Independence Hall, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Constitution of the United States and headshots of Ben Franklin, Thomas Jefferson and George Washington.

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