Special Mothers Day
Peace Demonstration:
Peace Demonstration:
Join us Sunday,
May 11 from
noon to 1:30 PM at the
corner of Reynolds and Heatherdowns
for a special Mothers Day demonstration against war and a call for
peace.
In 1870 Julia Ward Howe wrote a proclamation putting out a call for mothers and women around the world to rise up and demand peace thus beginning the tradition of Mothers Day. NWOPC will again celebrate Mothers Day by standing in solidarity with women around the world who follow the origional Mothers Day tradition. Please join us
In 1870 Julia Ward Howe wrote a proclamation putting out a call for mothers and women around the world to rise up and demand peace thus beginning the tradition of Mothers Day. NWOPC will again celebrate Mothers Day by standing in solidarity with women around the world who follow the origional Mothers Day tradition. Please join us
Mother’s
Day Proclamation
By
Julia Ward Howe (1870)
"Arise,
then, women of this day!
Arise all women who have hearts, whether your baptism be that of water
or of fears! Say firmly!
“We will not have great questions decided by irrelevant agencies,
“Our husbands shall 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 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!
"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.
"Let them meet first, as women, to bewail and commemorate the dead.
"Let them then solemnly take counsel with each other as the means whereby the great human family can live in peace, And each bearing after her 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.
“We will not have great questions decided by irrelevant agencies,
“Our husbands shall 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 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!
"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.
"Let them meet first, as women, to bewail and commemorate the dead.
"Let them then solemnly take counsel with each other as the means whereby the great human family can live in peace, And each bearing after her 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.
For pictures of previous Mothers Day events please visit our Mothers Day page.
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Notes:
- First Sunday of the month: Secor and Central Map
- Second Sunday of the month: Heatherdowns and Reynolds Map
- Third Sunday of the month: Front and Main Map
- Fourth Sunday of the month: Talmadge and Sylvania Map
- Fifth Sunday of the month (if there is one): Roving, Check Calendar