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Mother's-Day: 2nd Sunday in May MOTHER'S DAY News: 20080511 Mother's-Day - Museum - West Virginia - Woman - Mother - People - Consumer - Marketing - Industry - "For the mother of Mother's Day, it's just never been right." ... "Anna Jarvis never had children, but she became the mother of Mother's Day, giving birth to the holiday during a serene church ceremony in her hometown [Grafton, West Virginia] 100 years ago." ... "At first, her creation was perfect and pure. People honored their mothers the way she envisioned it -- with a white carnation, a symbol of maternal purity, a handwritten note or a day off." ... "But then her holiday started acting like a rebellious teenager, selling out to the flower and card industry, leaving Miss Jarvis bitter and disillusioned. She ended her life in a mental asylum." ... "The story of Miss Jarvis and the holiday that she couldn't control come to life in two exhibits more than 20 miles south of Morgantown [West Virginia]. The International Mother's Day Shrine memorializes the first Mother's Day service on May 10, 1908, the anniversary of the death of Miss Jarvis' mother, Ann Marie Reeves Jarvis." ... "Four miles away from Grafton in Webster [West Virginia] is the Anna Jarvis Birthplace Museum, a lovingly restored wooden Civil War-era house." ... "Miss Jarvis likely would cringe if she could see Mother's Day today." ... "The simple white carnation handed out to mothers in the former Andrews Methodist Church 100 years ago has given way to modern marketing -- crowded department store Mother's Day sales, restaurant pitches for elaborate brunches and dinners, ornate floral bouquets and rows upon rows of Mother's Day cards, instead of the handwritten note she urged. On average, Americans are expected to spend $138 each on mom this Mother's Day, ringing up $15.8 billion in sales." ... "In her day, Anna Jarvis was a public figure and irresistible newspaper copy as she crashed confectioners' conferences, broke up a War Mothers' rally and threatened lawsuits -- all in the name of saving her beloved Mother's Day from encroachers." -By Cristina Rouvalis -Post-Gazette.com  20080509 Mother's-Day - Politics - Women - Parents - Legislation - Kan - Fla - "Republicans Vote Against Moms; No Word Yet on Puppies, Kittens." ... "It was already shaping up to be a difficult year for congressional Republicans. Now, on the cusp of Mother's Day, comes this: A majority of the House GOP has voted against motherhood." ... "On Wednesday afternoon, the House had just voted, 412 to 0, to pass H. Res. 1113, "Celebrating the role of mothers in the United States and supporting the goals and ideals of Mother's Day," when [Kansas Republican Representative] Rep. Todd Tiahrt (R-Kan.), rose in protest." ... ""Mr. Speaker, I move to reconsider the vote," he announced." ... "[Florida Democratic Representative] Rep. Kathy Castor (D-Fla.), who has two young daughters, moved to table Tiahrt's request, setting up a revote. This time, 178 Republicans cast their votes against mothers." ... "It has long been the custom to compare a popular piece of legislation to motherhood and apple pie. Evidently, that is no longer the standard. Worse, Republicans are now confronted with a John Kerry-esque predicament: They actually voted for motherhood before they voted against it. " (1, 2) -By Dana Milbank -WashingtonPost 20070622 Mitt Romney - Jay Garrity - Police - Car - Politics - Massachusetts - Mother's-Day - 2008 Election - "Romney aide takes leave amid probes." ... "An ever-present aide to [2008 election] Republican presidential contender Mitt Romney took a leave of absence Friday after he became the subject of investigations in two states for allegedly impersonating a law enforcement officer. His attorney denied the charges." ... "Jay Garrity, who serves as director of operations and is constantly at the side of the former Massachusetts governor, is accused of leaving a lengthy message with the answering service of a plumbing company on Mother's Day, identifying himself as "Trooper Garrity" of the Massachusetts State Police and complaining about erratic driving by a company driver." ... "In 2004, Garrity was cited and fined by Massachusetts officials after a Ford Crown Victoria registered to him was found to have lights, a siren, radios and other law enforcement equipment -- including a baton -- after it was parked illegally in Boston's North End." -By Glen Johnson -AP via -BostonGlobe  20060514 US - Iraq - Mother's-Day - Politics - "Anti-war mothers say best gift would be peace." ... "An exhibit of empty combat boots and a silent march against the war in Iraq are bringing mothers and anti-war protesters together on the National Mall this Mother's Day  weekend." ... "Sarah Fuhro, a peace activist whose son is stationed in Iraq, says the best Mother's Day gift would be to hear the war is won and the troops are coming home." -AP via -WOI-TV  US - Vietnam - US Immigration - Mother's-Day - People - Des-Moines - Iowa - "Mom gives up possessions so son can live, succeed: 'Because of her, I will have a bright future,' says Hung Bui of Des Moines [Iowa], a top speech and acting student." ... "Hung Bui weeps when he recalls the long road of self-sacrifice his mother paved for him to be successful." ... "In Vietnam, Bui's mother, Thuy Phung, sold her car and valuables to pay for hospital care he needed when he was 2 months old." ... "After the family immigrated to the United States in 1998, Phung tirelessly worked and cared for Bui, his three older brothers and their father." ... "On Mother's Day, Bui, now 17, honors the person who has endured extraordinary sacrifices to help him become the person he is today." ... ""All her life, she has been working and building a comfortable life for the people around her," Bui said of his mother. "But she doesn't think much of her life. All she wants is my love." ... ""I will dedicate everything to her. Because of her, I am; because of her, I am going to college. Because of her, I will have a bright future."" -DesMoinesRegister/News  Mother's-Day - Woman - People - Illinois - "An Amazing Mother's Day Gift: She gave her twins to her best friend." ... "From the moment she saw the ultrasound--the black-and-white images of the twin girls in her womb--Anese Adams knew she wanted the babies to be adopted by her best friend." ... "Cynthia Rice had been godmother to Adams' two older children, playing an integral part in their upbringing. But the window to bear a child of her own was narrowing. Nearly 38, she already had one miscarriage. Her reproductive system was scarred by fibroid tumors, leaving her to struggle with the idea that "this might not be my destiny."" ... "So Adams made a decision--these would be Rice's children." ... ""Cynthia is my rock," said Adams, 36, who lives on the Northwest Side [Chicago, Illinois], 10 minutes away from Rice. "We are sisters without the blood. ... And this is something I could do."" ... "If precise words elude them in describing their arrangement, perhaps that's because it is easier to explain what it is not." ... "The women are not lesbian partners. (Adams is separated from her husband; Rice is unmarried.) Nor is this a surrogacy, where a woman is hired to bear an infant. ("Someone asked me if I was getting paid, and I was really offended," Adams fumed.) Neither woman has a relationship with the father, who has legally consented to the adoption, according to Rice's lawyer, Sara R. Howard." (1, 2, 3) -By Bonnie Miller Rubin -ChicagoTribune  20060513 Canada - Woman - Mother's-Day - Financial - Education - Accounting -Family - Politics - "Want to move up? Marry down." ... "Unlike many others, Christine Ellison has risen to the top of her field while still being able to celebrate Mother's Day. But her success had more to do with equality at home than equality at work: She put in the long hours required to earn and maintain a coveted partnership in a national accounting firm while her husband stayed home with their child." ... "Unintentionally, Ms. Ellison was acting out a template that some feminist thinkers argue is the only way to restart the stalled progress of women in society in general: Elite women must change not just workplaces, but also their intimate lives, in order to break the "domestic glass ceiling" -- the family duties that explain why women are vastly underrepresented in the most powerful positions." ... "How? Don't study liberal arts in college, they say. Hesitate to have more than one child. And marry "beneath" you, taking a spouse with lower earning potential so that yours never will be the career it "makes sense" to compromise." ... "Ms. Ellison was already up for the partnership when she first became pregnant. So she worked from home for four months, and then her husband, an electrical engineer named Jim Fulsang, took six months' parental leave from his job. In the end, the pair decided that Mr. Fulsang would quit to be with baby Michael in their Woodbridge, Ont. [Canada], home." ... ""I've invested so much in my education and career," she says. "Anybody who knows us well knows that our decision is financially logical. And he's more suited to be at home."" (1, 2, 3, 4, 5) -Tralee Pearce -GlobeAndMail  20050509 - North Carolina - Mother's-Day - "Ousted worshippers stand their ground on Mother's Day." ... "On Sunday, when many churchgoers were celebrating the blessing of mothers, some members of a Haywood County Church were sitting in pews for a different reason — to stand their ground." ... "Nine members of East Waynesville Baptist Church, including some who had been members there for more than 30 years, claim they were recently voted out of the church because they didn’t agree with Pastor Chan Chandler’s politicizing of the pulpit. The ousted members, including one who is a registered Republican, said they wanted to be there because it was their church home." ... "The expulsion of the members for apparent political differences has many wondering what the situation will do to the church’s tax-exempt status." -By Andre A. Rodriguez -Citizen-Times.com  20050508 2005 Mother's Day: May 8 -  - Mother's-Day - "They're As Satisfied as Other Women With Their Ability to Balance Work and Family Life." ... "Working moms are making it work: On Mother's Day 2005, they express broad satisfaction with their lives, work/life balance and parenting skills." ... "But oh, for a little spare time." ... "This ABC News/Washington Post poll finds that working moms (those with kids under 18 at home) are as satisfied as other women with their lives overall and their ability to balance work and family life. And they're no more likely than other working women to say they'd quit their job or cut their hours if they could." ... "But time is a different story: Among women who don't work outside the home, 68 percent are "very satisfied" with the amount of spare time they have. Among women who don't have kids at home, it's 51 percent, still a majority. But among working moms that plummets: Just 20 percent are happy with their free time." -By Jon Cohen and Gary Langer -ABCNEWS.com  20050505 - Mother's-Day - WalMart - " Wal-Mart and critics step up battle over wages." ... "With most of Wal-Mart's U.S. workers earning less than $19,000 a year, a number of community groups and lawmakers have recently teamed up with labor unions in mounting an intensive campaign aimed at prodding Wal-Mart into paying its 1.3 million employees higher wages." ... "A new group of Wal-Mart critics ran a full-page advertisement on April 20 contending that the company's low pay had forced tens of thousands of its workers to resort to food stamps and Medicaid, costing taxpayers billions of dollars. On April 26, as part of a campaign called "Love Mom, Not Wal-Mart," five members of Congress joined women's advocates and labor leaders to assail the company for not paying its female employees more at the company's 3,700 stores across the United States." -By Steven Greenhouse -NYTimes via -IHT.com  20050504 Mother's-Day -  - "Mothers Day is the most popular day of the year to dine out." ... "On Mother's Day, Americans like to honor the family matriarch by taking her out to eat." ... "Mother's Day, which will be celebrated Sunday - is the most popular day of the year to dine out, according to the National Restaurant Association." ... "About 38 percent of Americans will go out to eat for the holiday, the association's survey indicates." ... "Dining out on Mother's Day is more common among households with three or more individuals, according to the study. And younger respondents - those under 25 and between 35 and 44 - were more likely than older respondents to go out." -By Nancy Hobbs -SLTrib.com Ohio -  - Mother's-Day - WalMart - "Activists say not to buy mom's gift at Wal-Mart: Union's efforts call for higher wages, benefits." ... "Wal-Mart Store shoppers are likely to see protesters with placards saying "Love mom, not Wal-Mart" in front of a supercenter in Ohio this week." ... "The United Food and Commercial Workers have organized the protest in Huber Heights, a suburb of Dayton, to discourage customers from buying gifts at Wal-Mart for the Mother's Day holiday Sunday. The effort is part of a campaign that includes newspaper ads and Web sites that call on Wal-Mart to boost wages and benefits." -Bloomberg via-HoustonChronicle.com  - - - Mother's-Day - WalMart - "'Love Mom, Not Wal-Mart' Campaign Targets Retailer." ... "A coalition of labor unions, women's advocates and members of Congress is leading a U.S. campaign protesting Wal-Mart's wages and employment practices. The effort is called "Love Mom, Not Wal-Mart."" -By Renée Montagne -NPR/News  - Mother's-Day - "Love and lessons that last forever: For those who no longer have mothers to honor in person, Mother's Day is filled with memories." ... "For millions of sons and daughters, Sunday will be a day for superlatives and sentiment. With cards and gifts, phone calls and flowers, they'll send heartfelt messages to their mothers with variations on an annual theme: "Happy Mother's Day with much love."" ... "But for those who no longer have mothers to honor in person, the day will take on a different cast. It could even go by a different name: Mother's Day Without Mother." -By Marilyn Gardner -CSMonitor Mother's-Day - "Mother's Day By The Numbers." ... "Mom may be priceless, but her gifts are not. Shoppers will shell out $11.43 billion to tell mom they love her this Mother's Day, according to the National Retail Federation. Lucky moms! That's nearly 10% more than shoppers extracted from their wallets in 2004." ... "Americans have been celebrating mom for nearly a century--Anna Jarvis's letter-writing campaign paid off when Congress declared Mother's Day an official holiday in 1914--but this year the average consumer intends to spend $104.63, up from $98.64 last year, according to the NRF's Mother's Day Consumer Intentions and Actions Survey (conducted by BIGresearch)." -By Lacey Rose -Forbes 20050503 Mother's-Day - Homes - Florida - Georgia - Austin - TX - IL - Des-Moines - IA - Connecticut - Oklahoma - WA - Nebraska - Phoenix - AZ - Virginia - CA - Utah - North Carolina - "Women helping build homes." ... "Women Build is a partnership of Habitat for Humanity and the Lowe's chain of home improvement stores. It is an annual event that gives women a chance to help needy families. Female crews have built 650 Habitat houses in the United States." ... "[Along with Pensacola, Florida] Other cities with Mother's Day Women Build projects are Atlanta [Georgia]; Austin, Texas; Chicago [Illinois]; Des Moines, Iowa; Hartford, Conn. [Connecticut]; Oklahoma City [Oklahoma]; Olympia, Wash. [Washington]; Omaha, Neb. [Nebraska]; Phoenix [Arizona]; Richmond, Va [Virginia].; San Francisco [California]; Salt Lake City [Utah]; Tacoma, Wash. [Washington]; and Winston-Salem, N.C. [North Carolina]" -By Bill Kaczor -APvia -NJ.com Habitat.org/wb Mother's-Day - Food - "Impress Mom With A Brunch." ... "Mother's Day this weekend is a time to honor and celebrate mom's everywhere. So, why not start the day off right by surprising her with the perfect Mother's Day brunch?" ... "Almost everything can be made the day before, avoiding potential Sunday morning chaos which could upset mom on her day. And don't forget to set a pretty table!" -CBSNews Mother's-Day - Food - "Make Mom's Day." ... "After taking a highly informal but frank poll of my friends and colleagues, I'd say most mothers want help not with breakfast but with the big meal of the day. As one FOODday staffer put it: "Hey, I'd eat a bowl of Trix for breakfast if it meant I didn't have to cook dinner that night."" ... "And while I know mothers are supposed to be Queen for a Day, it doesn't mean we've got all morning to lie around nibbling sugar-dusted beignets. It may be Mother's Day, but it's also one of only two days that I, as a working mother, have each week to cram my entire domestic life into." -By Martha Holmberg-OregonLive/Oregonian -  - Food - Mother's-Day - "Getting fast-food critics on the team." ... "For 28 years, Dr. Dean Ornish has been trying to persuade people to make their eating habits more healthy." ... "In his five books, he champions low-fat diets; he was one of the first researchers to show that stringent healthy eating could reverse chronic illness, particularly heart disease. Among his advice to patients is to eat a lot of vegetables and minimally processed foods and to avoid all things greasy." ... "Yet Ornish also works for McDonald's. As a paid consultant, he meets with top executives, gives talks to employees and recently wrote nutritional words of wisdom about diet and breast cancer for table displays to go into all McDonald's restaurants in the United States for Mother's Day on Sunday." ... "He is not the only one straddling this line between science and commerce." -By Melanie Warner -IHT.com via -NYTimes  20021223 Christmas News - "Asia adopts Christmas." ... "Somewhere on the journey to becoming the world's biggest exporter of Christmas toys, China started importing yule for itself." ... "Christmas wreaths and lighted trees, white-foam snowmen and special dinners, as well as an ethos of "jingle-bell cool" are wafting in on the wings of global culture, bringing a holiday atmosphere to Beijing, Shanghai, and Guangzhou." ... "Throughout Asia, in fact, Western holidays have become chic, both for their commercial potential and because new generations think the act of decorating and celebrating is fun and different. Not only Christmas, but Valentine's Day, Father's Day and Mother's Day, Thanksgiving and Halloween, are finding a Pacific niche - where five years ago there was none." -By Robert Marquand  -CSMonitor 20010509 - Mother's-Day - Transportation- Vermont - "Mothers who work on Mother's Day." ... "Michaela Ells likes to go on long drives with her husband. Nothing unusual for many women. But when the distance is 3,000 miles, it's not your average Sunday drive." ... "Mrs. Ells is a truck driver from Bellows Falls, Vt. [Vermont] She and her husband, Bill, haul everything from brush bristles to maple syrup. They met at truck-driving school, after one instructor complained: "I can't get her to shift right. I give up. You try." So Mr. Ells did. They hit it off and soon married. Now they are one of only a handful of husband-wife, long-haul trucker couples in the United States." ... "What sets this couple apart is that they sometimes take Morgan, their 4-1/2-year-old daughter, along." ... "Mother's Day isn't a big deal to Ells. She says she and her husband acknowledge it, but don't do anything big. Still, she never forgets her own mom, wishing her a happy Mother's Day via fax, phone, or e-mail." -By Lane Hartill -CSMonitor 19990503 - Mother's-Day - Religion - West-Virginia - "Mom-orabilia: Mother's Day history from Rhea to the soccer mom." ... "As Mother's Day comes around again in the United States, 88 years after President Woodrow Wilson made it a national holiday, news of motherhood is often focused on celebrity moms." ... "But such famous contempo-moms aside, people have celebrated mothers and motherhood since ancient times in Greece. There, the focus of Hellenistic hoorays was Rhea, mother of the gods. She was honored as a subject of worship and festivals." ... "In the 17th century, the English paid tribute to their mums on Mothering Sunday, the fourth Sunday of Lent." ... "[In the US] As surviving Union and Confederate soldiers went home after the Civil War, community tensions were predictably high. So in the summer of 1965 [sic 1865], Anna Jarvis organized a Mothers' Friendship Day event at the courthouse in Pruntytown [West Virginia]." ... "By 1923, [Anna Jarvis's daughter, Anna Jarvis] she was filing lawsuits trying to stop celebrations of Mother's Day. She felt the observance she'd begun had been turned into a commercial exploitation." -By Cathryn Meurer -CNN  ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Mother's Day Wesbsites Julia Ward Howe TV Video: Mother's Day for Peace. "Celebrate the true meaning of Mother's Day." ... "In 1870, after the devastation of the American Civil War, social activist and poet Julia Ward Howe wrote the original Mother's Day Proclamation calling upon the women of the world to unite for peace." -via MothersDayForPeace.com talks about the origins of Mother's Day with a reading of Julia Ward Howe's 1870 poem "Mother's Day Proclamation." "Mother's Day Proclamation." Poem By Julia Ward Howe, 1870 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 voice 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 our 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.  <Mother's Day> in: <Bartleby> <Columbia> <Britannica> <Encyclopedia> <Infoplease.com> US American Mother's Statistics via - Census.gov - 20050502 Mother's Day: May 8, 2005 The first Mother's Day observance was a church service in 1908 requested by Anna Jarvis, of Philadelphia, to honor her deceased mother. Jarvis, at an early age, had heard her mother express hope that a day to commemorate all mothers would be established. Her mother had also expressed the sentiment that there were many days dedicated to men but none to mothers. Two years after her mother's death, Jarvis and friends began a letter-writing campaign to declare a national Mother's Day observance to honor mothers. In 1914, Congress passed legislation designating the second Sunday in May as Mother's Day. [Some links are PDF's. Emphasis added.] How Many Mothers 82.5 million Estimated number of mothers of all ages in the United States. (From unpublished Survey of Income and Program Participation data.) 68% Percentage of women in Mississippi, ages 15 to 44, who are mothers. This is among the highest rates among states. The national average is 56 percent. 82% Percentage of women 40 to 44 years old who are mothers. In 1976, 90 percent of women in that age group were mothers. New Moms 4.0 million Number of women who have babies each year. Of this number, about 425,000 are teens ages 15 to 19, and more than 100,000 are age 40 or over. 25.1 Average age of women when they give birth for the first time [PDF] a record high. The average age has risen nearly four years since 1970. 40% Percentage of births that are the mother's first [PDF]. Another 32 percent are the second-born; 17 percent, third; and 11 percent, fourth or more. 35,000 Number of births in 2002 [PDF] attended by physicians, midwives or others that do not occur in hospitals. 1-in-32 The odds of a woman delivering twins [PDF]. Her odds of having triplets or other multiple births was approximately 1-in-540. Mothers Remembered 23,094 Number of florists nationwide in 2002 [PDF]. The florists 119,117 employees will be especially busy preparing, selling and delivering floral arrangements for Mother's Day. The flowers bought for mom probably were grown in California or Colombia. Among the 36 surveyed states, California was the leading provider of cut flowers in 2003 [PDF], accounting for more than two-thirds of the domestic production ($306 million out of $425 million) in those states. Meanwhile, the value of U.S. imports of cut flowers and fresh flower buds in 2004 from Colombia, the leading foreign supplier to the United States, was more than $385 million. $5 billion Revenue of greeting-card publishers nationwide in 2002 [PDF]. The 15,859 employees of the 119 greeting-card publishing companies are especially busy creating Mother's Day greeting cards. More than 152 million Number of Mother's Day cards expected to be given this year in the United States, making? Mother's Day the third-largest card-sending occasion. (Source: Hallmark research) Single Moms 10 million The number of single mothers [PDF] living with children under 18 years old, up from 3 million in 1970. How Many Children 2 Average number of children [PDF] that women today can expect to have in their lifetime. 3 Average number of children [PDF] that women in Utah and Alaska can expect to have in their lifetime. These two states top the nation in average number of births per woman. Only about 10 percent of women today end their childbearing years with four or more children [PDF]. That compares with 36 percent in 1976. August The most popular month in which to have a baby [PDF], with 359,000 births taking place that month in 2002. July, with 358,000, was just a shade behind. Tuesday The most popular day of the week in which to have a baby [PDF], with an average of almost 13,000 births taking place on Working Moms 55% Among mothers with infant children in 2002, the percentage in the labor force, down from a record 59 percent in 1998. This marks the first significant decline in this rate since the Census Bureau began calculating this measure in 1976. In that year, 31 percent of mothers with infants were in the labor force. 63% Among college-educated women with infant children, the percentage in the labor force. Among mothers between ages 15 and 44 who do not have infants, 72 percent are in the labor force. More than 687,000 Number of child day-care centers across the country in 2002 [PDF]. These include nearly 69,000 centers employing close to 750,000 workers and another 618,000 self-employed persons or other companies without paid employees. Many mothers turn to these centers to help juggle motherhood and career. About  2 million Among more than 10 million preschoolers, the number who are cared for in a day-care center during the bulk of their mother's working hours. 5.4 million Number of stay-at-home moms in 2003. Thirty-nine percent of these mothers were under the age of 35. -Census.gov ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

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"Mother's Day Proclamation."
Poem By Julia Ward Howe, 1870
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 voice 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 our 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.

 Mother's Day Quotations

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