“I considered that life was sweet in all living creatures, and the taking it away became a very tender point with me. The creatures, or many of them, were given, or as I take it, rather lent us to be governed in the great Creator's fear.”

— Joshua Evans (Quaker minister)

Source: Journal, pp. 27-28

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American Quaker minister and abolitionist 1731–1798

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