[Peace-discuss] Mother's Day

[Ken Urban]

http://www.accuracy.org/press_releases/PR050503.htm

Following is the orginal Mother's Day Proclaimation.

Ken

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Arise then, women of this day! Arise all women who have hearts, whether
your baptism be of water or of tears!

Say firmly: "We will not have questions decided by irrelevant agencies.
Our husbands shall not come to us reeking of 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. We women
of one country will be too tender to those of another country to allow
our sons to be trained to injure theirs. From the bosom of a 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 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 solemnly take counsel with each other as to the means
whereby the great human family can live in peace, each bearing after his
time the sacred impress not of Caesar, but of God.

In the name of womanhood and humanity, I earnestly ask that a general
congress of women without limit of nationality 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.