The real Mother's Day herstorical truth
Years before I learned about Julia Ward Howe and the real origin of Mother's Day, I taught my daughter that EVERY day is Mother's Day so you can imagine how thrilled I was to learn our true herstory.
Even 150 long years later, this beautiful inspiring proclamation never fails to stir me deeply and make me long for our embracing of this action by womyn to leave home, as men up and leave at the summons of war, we need to leave to heed the summons of peace.
Even 150 long years later, this beautiful inspiring proclamation never fails to stir me deeply and make me long for our embracing of this action by womyn to leave home, as men up and leave at the summons of war, we need to leave to heed the summons of peace.
,
whether our baptism be that of water or of tears!
Say firmly: “We
will not have great questions decided by irrelevant agencies
Our
husbands will not come to us, reeking with carnage, for caresses and
applause.
Our sons shall not be taken from us to unlearn all that we have been able to teach them of charity, mercy and patience.
Our sons shall not be taken from us to unlearn all that we have been able to teach them of charity, mercy and patience.
We
women of one country will be too tender of those of another country to
allow our sons to be trained to injure theirs.”
From the bosom of the devastated earth a voice goes up with our own. It says, “Disarm, disarm!"
From the bosom of the devastated earth a voice goes up with our own. It says, “Disarm, disarm!"
The sword of murder is not the balance of
justice.
Blood does not wipe out dishonor nor violence indicate
possession.
As men have often forsaken the plow and the anvil at the summons of war, let women now leave all that may be left of home for a great and earnest day of counsel.
As men have often forsaken the plow and the anvil at the summons of war, let women now leave all that may be left of home for a great and earnest day of counsel.
Let them meet first, as women,
to bewail and commemorate the dead. Let them then solemnly take counsel
with each other as to the means whereby the great human family can
live in peace, each learning after his own time, the sacred impress, not
of Caesar, but of God.
In the name of womanhood and of humanity, I earnestly ask that a general congress of women without limit of nationality may be appointed and held at some place deemed most convenient and at the earliest period consistent with its objects, to promote the alliance of the different nationalities, the amicable settlement of international questions, the great and general interests of peace.
In the name of womanhood and of humanity, I earnestly ask that a general congress of women without limit of nationality may be appointed and held at some place deemed most convenient and at the earliest period consistent with its objects, to promote the alliance of the different nationalities, the amicable settlement of international questions, the great and general interests of peace.
posted by Xan @ 10:14 AM
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