Temperance Movement
The temperance movement is strong in Sweden, especially in agricultural areas, and often connected with the "free churches" (non-conformists, that is Protestants outside the Church of Sweden). The Straight Edge movement spread among Swedish youth in the 1990s.
Scandinavian Lutherans played a large part in supporting Prohibition in the United States.
Read more about this topic: Alcoholic Beverages In Sweden
Famous quotes containing the words temperance and/or movement:
“Abstinence is as easy to me, as temperance would be difficult.”
—Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)
“... contemporary black women felt they were asked to choose between a black movement that primarily served the interests of black male patriarchs and a women’s movement which primarily served the interests of racist white women.”
—bell hooks (b. c. 1955)