Though, along with many other German sectarians (these included Quakers, Mennonites, Schwenkfelders, Moravians and his own sect, the Dunkers), Sower was merely a pacifist, his son was an active loyalist, and the Sowers were on the rebels' list of loyalists.

Similar disparaging terms directed at outspoken Christians but later embraced by them include Jesus freaks or, from former centuries, Methodists, Quakers, and Shakers.

Most pietistic Protestants were "dries" who advocated prohibition as a solution to social problems; they included Methodists, Congregationalists, Disciples, Baptists, Presbyterians, Quakers, and Scandinavian Lutherans.

Prisoners included Quakers, "witches," pirates, murderers, rebels, debtors, and newspaper editors.

Testimony to equality has included Quakers participating in actions that promote the equality of the sexes and the racial equality, as well as other classifications of people.

He said the list included Quakers, a Catholic antiwar organization and the Raging Grannies, which Mr. Leahy sarcastically called "a scary group."

Early settlers included Quakers and Royalist refugees from Cromwell's England.

Nonconformism - Advocacy of religious liberty; includes Quakers, Methodists, Baptists, Congregationalists and Salvationists.

These included mainly Lowland Scot Presbyterians, but also English Puritans and Quakers, French Huguenots and German Palatines.

Further, New York and Pennsylvania both exempted persons with conscientious scruples against oaths, which included Quakers, from the requirement to swear allegiance during naturalization, a colonial innovation that would later influence Parliament's general naturalization law.