From a mystical revelation during the English Civil War, George Fox founded Quakerism on one radical idea: that every person has direct access to the Divine Light within.

Long before women could vote, Lucretia Mott was preaching equality, sheltering freedom seekers, and helping launch the women’s rights movement — all grounded in her radical Quaker belief that there is “that of God” in everyone.

Bayard Rustin, Quaker pacifist and chief organizer of the 1963 March on Washington, shaped the Civil Rights Movement through nonviolence, racial justice, and LGBTQ advocacy.