The Quakers, Barbour and Frost, 1988. J. Walter West A Quaker testimony is a belief that stems from our fundamental understanding of religious truth. It is a corporately held belief about how we should individually act. In practicing them, we witness to our understanding of the very nature of God's spirit of love and truth. Equality needs to be implemented through social justice, as we strive to reflect God's equal valuation of us in our treatment of one another.
Friends support equality, regardless of race, gender, faith, class, financial status and age.
Friends join together in worship, in caring for the business of their meetings and churches, and in acting corporately upon their beliefs in the wider world. We know ourselves as individuals but only because we live in community. Love, trust, fellowship, selflessness are all mediated to us through our interdependence. Just as we could not live physically without each other, we cannot live spiritually in isolation. We are individually free but also communally bound.