Quakerism and Social Change

Within the article "The Meeting for Worship" I found a lot of connections to religion and social change. The article was about the Light Within. During this time Quakers sit in a circle silently to reflect on God's presence. They speak only if they have a revelation.
The goal of Quakerism is to experience fundamental truths during their quiet time. Once the truths have been contemplated they return to the outside world and apply the truths accordingly. This reminds me of Plato's Allegory of the Cave. In Allegory three men are fettered against a cave wall. One man is given the chance to escape the darkness of the cave and experience the light from the outside world. Once he has experienced all the truths, etc from the outside world he has to make a decision if he would like to stay in the light or if he should go back in the cave to tell the truths to his fellow cavedwellers.
This is the same task that Quaker's undertake. To them the outside world is considered to be the cave but during their quiet time they are allowed to seek the light and fundamental truths. Once they have received a revelation it is their choice whether they would like to apply these truths to the outside world. The truths represent religion and the outside world represents social change/our modern world. The Quakers call this process withdrawl and return.
There are two sides to this process. The negative side is that it takes one back to the sourcs of meaning and value. I see this as a person being stuck in the past. The positive side is that one can put meaning and value in the routine of life, which I took as applying religion to social change.
Basically, one can either be stuck in religion and take the Bible literally and thus being passive towards social change. Or one can go back and really understand the religion and take that meaning and return to modern society and apply the basic meaning of life that religion has in mind. For example, the article states that "without a deep awareness of the divine Spirit by which the world is united from within, social reformers can only prescribe external remedies" (68). This is similar to prescribing a depressed person medicine without ever counseling them. Quakers want to go to the root of the problem...find the remedy and then apply that to the overarching problem. The Quaker religion takes and active role in social change, they want to combine the two world...so the "two gradually merge until the lives of those who are most advanced the two become one" (63).