Which sentence in this excerpt from patrick henry's famous "liberty or death" speech at the second virginia convention in 1775 emphasizes the american colonists’ efforts to avoid war?

The sentence in the excerpt from Patrick Henry's famous "liberty or death" speech at the Second Virginia Convention in 1775 that emphasized the American colonists' effore to avoid war was "We have petitioned; we have remonstrated; we have supplicated; we have prostrated ourselves before the throne, and have implored its interposition to arrest the tyrannical hands of the ministry and Parliament."

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argument: "it's time to wage a war against britain to secure american freedom."

claims: "america has tried every peaceful method available for seperating from england" & "the americans' petitions to the king have been turned away by him."