Damned If We Do, Damned If We Don’t

My favorite writer is E.B. White, of Charlotte’s Web fame, who wrote primarily for The New Yorker magazine for six decades, eviscerating demagogues so cleverly they were flattered by the attention. I’m not half the writer E.B. White was, so my weapon of choice is a blunt object, not a scalpel, which can sometimes be at odds with my Quaker belief in “that of God in every person.” How does one advocate for justice, a Quaker imperative, while still loving the perpetrator of injustice, also a Quaker imperative? Quakers before me wondered how to love not only the enslaved, but also the enslaver who beat them.