Quakers

===Service organisations===
[[File:Quaker star-T.svg|thumb|upright|Star symbol used by many service organisations of the Religious Society of Friends]]

There are many Quaker service organizations dedicated to peace and humanitarian activities overseas. The first, the British [[Friends Service Council]] (FSC), was founded in Great Britain in 1927 and shared the 1947 [[Nobel Prize for Peace]] with the [[American Friends Service Committee]] (AFSC).<ref>{{cite web|url= https://www.britannica.com/topic/Friends-Service-Council|title= Friends Service Council|last=|first=|date= January 2017|website= Britannica|publisher= Encyclopædia Britantica|access-date= 16 July 2021 |quote= }}</ref>

The Quaker star is used by many Quaker service organizations, such as The American Friends Service Committee, Canadian Friends Service Committee and [[Quaker Peace and Social Witness]] (previously Friends Service Council). It was originally used by British Quakers performing [[Humanitarian aid|war relief]] efforts during the [[Franco-Prussian War]] to distinguish themselves from the [[Red Cross]].<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Gill |first=Rebecca |date=2009 |title=The Rational Administration of Compassion?: The Origins of British Relief in War |url=http://www.cairn.info/revue-le-mouvement-social-2009-2-page-9.htm |journal=Le Mouvement Social |language=fr |volume=227 |issue=2 |pages=9 |doi=10.3917/lms.227.0009 |s2cid=144568446 |issn=0027-2671}}</ref> Today the star is used by multiple Quaker organizations as their symbol to represent "a common commitment to service and the spirit in which it is provided."<ref>{{Cite web |date=2010-03-30 |title=The Red and Black Star |url=https://www.afsc.org/story/red-and-black-star |access-date=2021-07-14 |website=American Friends Service Committee |language=en |archive-date=14 July 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210714190704/https://www.afsc.org/story/red-and-black-star |url-status=dead }}</ref>