As Narayan Desai remarks: "Nonviolence presupposes a level of humanness — however low it may be, in every human being."
Love of enemies is trusting God for the miracle of divine forgiveness. If God can forgive, redeem, and transform me, I must also believe that God can work such wonders with anyone. Love of enemies is seeing one's oppressors through the prism of the Reign of God — not only as they now are but also as they can become: transformed by the power of God.
— Walter Wink, Jesus and Nonviolence