The Valiant Sixty were a group of early leaders and activists in the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers). They were itinerant preachers, mostly from northern England who spread the ideas of the Friends during the second half of the Seventeenth Century, and were also called the First Publishers of Truth. There were actually more than sixty of them.
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Famous quotes containing the words valiant and/or sixty:
“Thou wilt be as valiant as the wrathful dove or most
magnanimous mouse.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“At sixty I look back on a life of deep disappointments, of withered hopes, of unlooked for suffering, of severe discipline.”
—Sarah M. Grimke (1792–1873)