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The passage shared at the 9/25 meeting for worship was from the Quaker prison reformer Elizabeth Fry (1780-1845):

I look not to myself, but to that within me, that has to my admiration proved to be my present help, and enabled me to do what I believe of myself I could not have done.

This FCNL article places Elizabeth Fry's legacy within the long Quaker tradition of advocacy for prison reform:

https://www.fcnl.org/updates/2016-09/quakers-know-prisons-inside-out

As a coda to the FCNL article, one Quaker has been influential also in prison abolition, specifically as an early thinker regarding transformative justice. In the late 1990s, Ruth Morris, a Quaker in Canada, challenged restorative justice because it did not address issues of oppression, injustices, and social inequities within conflicts:

http://www.review.upeace.org/pdf.cfm?articulo=124&ejemplar=23

While Elizabeth Fry's passage is an affirmation of the truth there was that of God in her, Ruth Morris's work focused heavily on the also true Quaker belief there is that of God in everyone:

Transformative Justice uses the power unleashed by the harm of the crime to let those most affected find truly creative, healing solutions.

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