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she said, "i've always wondered about the quakers," and i said, "well, here i am. i'm a quaker." she said, "but you don't dress like one." she was assuming the gray- the pilgrim outfit, you know. "but you don't dress like one." now this was three years ago, so i can see people's ideas certainly give a graphic of what they have learned. >> well, another thing, the quakers that i know, at least, they are called friends. they have renamed themselves friends. and the kids i went to school with after eighth grade would go away to haviland, kansas, and attend the quaker friends high school and college. >> you see what we're drawing in here, yeah, is yet another group of this sort that works with this. and as i said, we could have several different groups. just in the interest of time, let me shift over to the mormons. now i don't want to- you know, we'll have a chance to come back to look at some of these other groups and make mention of them. but you see, we've got the ball rolling here in class, which is what i wanted to do by picking just- not really just any two groups out of the a

she got a good education at quaker schools. they fell in love with and married a quaker businessman, james mott, and they settled in philadelphia. in philadelphia she got more and more interested in the anti-slavery movement, and both of the motts supported the anti-slavery movement although mr. mott is really a businessman and it is lucretia the activist, and their house in philadelphia was often a stop on the underground railroad. in the 1830s lucretia mott begins to speak out against slavery and goes out on the lecture circuit. she admitted she was an average speaker and didn't describe herself as a brilliant orator like some of the others but impressed audiences. nonetheless with her force of character, with her integrity and also her sweetness. she seemed to have had a very sweet nature and was much beloved by other abolitionists, her sweetness and her strength of character. however, she, too, is ridiculed in the mainstream press. she was called a, quote, she devil, a favorite insult directed at female abolitionists in thi

(laughter) >> quaker oats is giving its famous mascot a makeover. the famous quaker known by insiders as larry-- i had no idea-- is getting a new hair cut and losing weight and five years off his age. >> the guy on the left side of your screen is the older version. his face is now slimmer, though, and tanner. he's lost that double chin. >> we are such an obsessed culture with plastic surgery. >> and it worked. i hear he's banging the land o'lakes girl. (laughter) in fact, this facelift was such a success i think all our commission mascots could use a freshen up. toucan sam, i know a great guy on the upper east side that can fix that beak. and think how much better michelin man would look after lap band surgery. and come on, i cannot be the only one who would love to see some double ds on the aflac duck. (laughter) yeah. nice af-rack. (laughter) but, folks, the new larry isn't a hit with everyone. in fact, it's been traumatic for my mentor, long-time quaker oats spokes walrus wilfred brimly. (laughter) you see, wilfred calls me up on time to time to

don't forget that he's a quaker, who grew up in a quaker family and a quaker community and went to a quaker college. and he came in as a wartime president. he inherited what i've often described as the second most disastrous decade in american history, second only to the 1860s and the nearest thing to a civil war since then. and we had when we came in there were half a million troops still in vietnam, deaths 300 a week, and he came in hoping to reshape the relationships among the great powers, you could really have a lasting peace. this is really what he was after. this was his number one goal. and so it was not a trivial thing for him, it was really central to why -- what he wanted to do with his presidency. >> abroad, the shift from old policies to new has not been a retreat from our responsibilities but a better way to peace. and at home, the shift from old policies to new will not be a retreat from our responsibilities but a better way to progress. abroad and at home, the key to those new responsibilities lies in the macings and the divisions of responsibility. we have lived too

they became born again protestants and joined the local quaker church. in their conversations with other people, they get more and more outspoken in their criticisms of slavery. the family tries to shut them up. the grimke relatives are deeply embarrassed by this, and some local law enforcement figures visit the household in charleston and say can't you get them to stop? can't you get them to stop saying these things at prayer group meetings when they would meet with other people and talk about the bible and their interpretations of the bible and finally the family pays them to leave. the family pays them off to go away. they move to philadelphia where they get active in the abolitionist movement. both of the grimke sisters went out on the lecture circuit, and they were both apparently excellent speakers. they both had very melodic, silvery speaking voices based on eyewitness accounts and they were talking about things that they have witnessed themselves. frederick douglass was talking about his experience as a slave. the grimke sisters are talking about

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but by the time he got to the white house you had this part of richard nixon who was the quaker, who wanted to bring good things, who really believed it when he went out and talk to those kids at the memorial -- lincoln memorial and was deeply cared about the country, who saw billy graham as a -- and billy graham saw him as a saving figure. and he had a redemptive quality about him. and there was this dark, resentful, boring, angry richard nixon, too. and it made him the most fascinating man i've ever known in public life and maybe was the most tragic. i do want to add one thing about the bright side because i've written about -- i believe this. the nixon -- richard nixon was the best strategist i've ever met in public life, and i've known a lot. he had this capacity to sort of go up on the mountain top and look out into the future about 20 years. figure out how the forces of history were going to unfold and try to bend those forces to favor america's national security interest. he was a real visionary in going to china and understanding if you could break apart the chinese from the

it's got quakers. it's got a baptist and episcopalians and catholics so plenty enough to slaughter each other over if you want to do that sort of thing. so looking backwards, very few democracies, tiny little city states and even if they have democratic constitutions, ways of life, even if they have written documents, never a constitutional -- a democratic constitution making process. one man create inging a pipelin god or something is the law, handing down the law. they're not putting their constitutions to a popular vote in athens or rome or florence or anywhere else in the world. before 1776, the brits, they claim that they have some kind of constitution and it does have some democratic elements created by tradition, a house of commons, jury trial, but they never have a democratic constitution making process. before 1776, that had never been done. the declaration isn't put to a popular vote. there isn't time. we're in a war. the shooting has already started. that's what david mccullough's magnificen

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a quaker, for example, in new jersey, in the 1820s, wrote some essayss wrote that gradual emancipation would be good state by state. this is different. these are team calling for the absolute and full and complete end to slavery. every slave in the united states immediately. the people who are very active in this movement are devout protestants. blacks and whites. men and women. people from all parts of the united states. we must always remember this is a small number of people. this was never a mainstream movement or never a mass moveme movement. students from our perspective today and we look back at this, of course, slavery should end. of course, slavery should be abolished. the last country to abolished slavery was saudi arabia in 1962. not 1862. to say these things in the 1830s and '40s and '50s took a lot of courage and guts. this is not mainstream opinion. this is going against mainstream opinion. these people are at the cutting edge of reform. these people are in the vanguard of range. they are saying things that are quite controversial. they get a lot of criticism and oppositi