Perkins wrote in 1976. “And sometimes, it really hurts. But it always brings peace . . . You have to be a bit of a dreamer to imagine a world where love trumps hate—but I don’t think being a dreamer is all that bad . . . I’m an old man, and this is one of my dreams: that my descendants will one day live in a land where people are quick to confess their wrongdoing and forgive the wrongdoing of others and are eager to build something beautiful together.”
