RamenCatholic 🐢🌈Oct 18, 2023

#CurrentlyReading 'Remaking Friends' by #ChuckFager (How #Progressive #Friends Changed #Quaker ism & Helped Save America).

It contains a poem from 1856 (linked below) which hit me hard as an #exvangelical

'The Tyrant's Ancient Arguement; or, The Dangers of Thought'

(Or: the more things change, the more things stay the same 😭)

https://afriendlyletter.com/progressive-quaker-poetry-the-tyrants-ancient-argument-or-the-dangers-of-thought/

It ends:

With the Bigot chimes the Tyrant, and the gray Conservative:
Stop this thinking, crush these thinkers, or we can no longer live.

Progressive Quaker Poetry: The Tyrant’s Ancient Argument–Or, The Dangers of Thought

  Yes, for Progressive Quakers, A Man’s Best Friend Was His Dog-gerel. (It Was A Woman Friend’s Best Friend too.) So here’s a sample, from 1856; it might not be great art, but I hear a lot of …

A Friendly Letter
tim d (he/him)May 30, 2023

when i wrote this zine on hippie parenting, i pulled a nice quote (slide no. 2) for the intro from Quaker civil rights & peace activist & all-around innovative thinker, Chuck Fager.

little did i know that Mr Fager lived in a house on my block when he wrote those very words in the early 70s! (the house in slide no. 1)

Mr Chuck Fager's old house, we salute you!

#ChuckFager #FreeTheFuturePress
#SomervilleMA #LocalHistory