Conflict of conviction: a reappraisal of Quaker involvement in the American Revolution / by William C. Kasharus III. Lanham, Md.: University Press of American, c1990. Main Library, E269.F8 K37 1990 At the time of the American Revolution, Quakerism, with its strong pacifist testimony, was one of the leading religious persuasions in the American colonies. Among many there was a conflict of conviction as to whether or not to participate in the Revolutionary movement Despite their religious rearing, many Friends were carried into the actual conflict, impelled by their interpretation of their inherited idealist. Thomas Paine and General Nathanael Greene were among many with a Quaker education who participated in the Revolution.