Let us try what love will do

“We are too ready to retaliate, rather than forgive, or gain by love and Information.

And yet we could hurt no man that we believe loves us. Let us then try what love will do: for if men did once see we love them, we should soon find they would not harm us. Force may subdue, but love gains: and he that forgives first wins the laurel.”

— William Penn, 1682
Early Quaker and founder of Pennsylvania

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Try what love will do.

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  • William Penn (1644 – 1718) was an English writer, religious thinker, and influential Quaker who founded the Province of Pennsylvania during the British colonial era. He was an advocate of democracy and religious freedom. Penn was also an enslaver.

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