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.
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Famous quotes containing the words temperance and/or movement:
“Abstinence is as easy to me, as temperance would be difficult.”
—Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)
“...I lost myself in my work and never felt that marriage would give me the security I wanted. I thought that through the trade union movement we working women could get better conditions and security of mind.”
—Mary Anderson (1872–1964)