Mother's Day CRY FOR PEACE: Arise then...women of this day!

We need a Julia Ward Howe in our government, first, and all over the world! And we need more proclamations such as this one below...

NOTE: We celebrate Mother's Day in the US every year yet how many quote the words of this national holiday's founder? How many Presidents, vice-presidents and "all the King's men" quote it? How many prime ministers? How many Generals of war? Her words to us women - call for unqualified peace - worldwide? This is a proclamation still timely today - which we ignore, year after year - gravely leading to our mutual demise.

"We, the women of one country,
Will be too tender of those of another country
To allow our sons to be trained to injure theirs."

Julia Ward Howe's PROCLAMATION of PEACE (or Proclamation for Mother's Day) An abolitionist against slavery who's earlier song & poetry is still found in the wrong hands and still misused - finally - having seen in her time and place most vividly - the terrrible carnage of war - in 1870, Ms. Howe wrote this moving declaration...

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 answered 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.
We, the 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 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 often forsaken the plough 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 own 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,
May be appointed and held at someplace deemed most convenient
And 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.
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See the post just above on One Heart for Peace blog - for an ACTION in keeping with the above proclamation: MOTHER'S AGAINST TORTURE: ACTION TODAY - Julia Ward Howe, the founder of Mother's Day, would be ever so pleased if you would attend or hold your own such rally...