The Contributions of the Quakers
Elizabeth Gray Vining What are the contributions of the people called Quakers to the United States of America? Here we shall be dealing with what cannot be measured, physically; with things that cannot, like a nugget of gold, be weighed in the palm of one's hand and appraised. We shall not have things we can see and touch, great buildings, vast railroads, monuments. We shall find things of which we cannot even say definitely: "This we owe to the Quakers." We shall only be able to say: "The Quakers saw this first." Often we shall say: "The Quakers started this, and others have carried it on."
A great country such as the United States is made up of gifts from many people. Each group that has come to us is a single thread in the fabric of our country. As we trace one thread after another through the great weaving, we must remember that the beauty of the pattern and the strength of the fabric depend not on each separate, bright, strong, thread, but upon the mingling of them all together and the support that they bring to each other.
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