About QUIT.  We join a great many others in this work. 

Our Mission

As part of our Quaker witness, we are committed to support Friends in their efforts to:

• Raise awareness about state-sponsored torture and cruel, inhuman, and degrading treatment;

• Totally abolish such practices; and

• Assist all those damaged by such practices.

 We thank

• Friends World Committee on Consultation, which provided conference seed money.

• The Brown Fund of New England Yearly Meeting for supporting our work with a grant in 2007.

• The many Friends and others who created a flood of response to the call for a conference on torture. Many ideas have been shared. It became clear that a large historic work, similar to early Quaker work in prison reform, abolition, and women’s suffrage, is at hand. Our planning will be for a long-term work, perhaps of more than one generation. It’s also clear that such large and difficult work is good for our spiritual muscles, individually and corporately.