A Gallery of Quaker Socialists

Alfred Salter

Brilliant doctor, medical reformer, a champion of slum clearance, and MP for Bermondsey. Member of the Socialist Quaker Society.

Ada Salter

First woman mayor in London, renowned for model housing and beautification of the slums. Member of the Socialist Quaker Society.

Philip Noel Baker

Olympic athlete and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize for Peace. Devoted his life to the cause of world disarmament. In 1975 he was a founder member of the Quaker Socialist Society.

Nozizwe Madlala Routledge

Member of ANC, supporter of Mandela, minister in South African government. Member of Quaker Socialist Society.

John MacMurray

A Scottish philosopher and Oxford don whose main influences were Kant and Marx. In the 1930s he analysed the basis of ethical socialism (the personal and the social), He became a Quaker later in life.

Bayard Rustin

Civil Rights organiser and principal organiser of the historic March on Washington. Champion of gay rights. Followed the socialsism of black activist Philip Randolph.

Joseph Southall

One of the greatest artists of the First World War. Follower of William Morris. Produced striking illustrations for Ploughshare, the magazine of the Socialist Quaker Society.

Paul Oestreicher

New Zealand peace campaigner of Jewish ancestry who became both an Anglican and a Quaker. Organiser of the Christian-Marxist Dialogue in the 1960s. Later, he criticised Tony Blair from a socialist viewpoint.

Joan Baez

Of Mexican descent, she is the most well-known of all American folk-singers. A Quaker, she put her beautiful voice at the service of the peace movement. A supporter of socialist Bernie Sanders.