Quakers

The Society of Friends, Friends Church, or 'Quakers' as they have come to be known, are a religious sect of Christians who place special emphasis on what they refer to as the 'inner-light' or the light-within. This is believed to be God's presence within a person stirring and moving their thoughts and emotions towards a certain objective or understanding. 
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== Facts: ==
-The Quakers were founded by George Fox and were built around the ideas of the Priesthood of All Believers and a lack of intricate church ceremony. 
-Quakers had no official clergy but instead all members of the church together represented the ecclesiastical leadership. 
-The Quakers nickname comes from a purported habit they had of getting so excited during their gatherings that their bodies would quake. Hence, their official name of the Society of Friends was tossed into the sidebar of history and everybody knows them simply as the Quakers. 
-Quakers believed in the spiritual equality of men and women. Members of Quakerism were usually avowed pacifists and also activists who struggled for the abolitionist movement and women's suffrage. 
-Apparently not all Quakers consider themselves 'Christian,' with some professing beliefs in other religions or simply not wanting to be strapped to a particular religious stereotype. 
-The Quakers were something of an oddity for many within the Ecclesiastical Orders, however, they proved very popular with the Order of Mystics, the Order of Prophets and, especially, the Order of Infinity. Quakerism's stress on the individual's relationship with the Divine meant that the Quakers have always produced more than a few Theists with every successive generation. 
== References: ==
-https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quakers
-http://quakerinfo.org/index
-http://quaker.org
-http://www.history.com/topics/history-of-quakerism
-https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxjH4sa2RFICategory:God
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