Ariel Gold is the executive director of the Fellowship of Reconciliation - USA, the oldest peace and justice organization in the U.S. Previously, she was the national co-director of CODEPINK, where she helped manage the Peace in Ukraine coalition.
According to legend, the organization I lead, the Fellowship of Reconciliation, was founded in August 1914 when a British Quaker and a German Lutheran shook hands at a railway station in Cologne. With England on the cusp of joining World War I, they pledged, 'We are one in Christ and can never be at war.'After Germany sunk the Lusitania ship in May 1915, American public support for joining the war swelled. But not everyone got on board. Political activist and theologian A.J.
Neither prison nor chains nor sentence of death can rob a man of the Faith and his free will.” When, in 1944, devout Quaker Bayard Rustin was sentenced to three years for refusing to serve in World War II, he devoted his prison time to racial justice work. A disciple of Gandhian nonviolence, he organized his fellow prisoners to resist segregation in the prison. He was so successful that the head of the prison described him as “an extremely capable agitator.
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