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The Secret History of Our Enemies

February 20, 2007

If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find, in each person's life, suffering and sorrow enough to disarm all our hostility. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882). American poet, educator, linguist.

It's said that the first step in convincing people that it's okay to victimize another is to dehumanize them. To make them into, not fellow beings who love and laugh and cry, but objects, and then obstacles. Not people, but “the enemy”.

Would it not follow then that the first step in making “the enemy” back into a human being might be to laugh or cry with them?

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