"If we could read the secret history..." - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

☮️ Peace

“If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each persons life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility and bring peace.”

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Longfellow argues that understanding enemy suffering would naturally produce peace.

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