Quaker History - period ended 10.15.2006

Politics and Economics / Public Service / Hurley, Pat // NC House District 70 preview / Greensboro News Record / Greensboro / NC / USA /12-Oct-06// Civic leadership: Clerk of Quaker congregation, Sunday school teacher, member of Republican Women of Randolph County. Website: Had ...

Quaker History / Politics and Economics / Humanitarian Assistance / Roberts had early dreams for office / Durango Herald / Durango / CO / USA /15-Oct-06//…… mother's pacifist Quaker religion and would not go to war.

"My brother was not going to Vietnam, no matter how much my father wanted him to," Roberts, 47, remembers.Later her brother would persuade her to help him go door-to-door for Barry Commoner, presidential candidate for a Green Party predecessor.…. By the time she left for college, she was leaning to the right, and knew "my brother and I were not exactly on the same page." She had been influenced not only by her father, but by the persecution of her mother's Quaker ancestors.

"One of the basic reasons I'm a Republican is I don't think government belongs in people's private lives," she says.Her burning interests in college were agricultural and energy issues, which she tended to think of from the perspective of government policy.." She had been influenced not only by her father, but by the persecution of her mother's Quaker ancestors. ...