A MOTHER’S DAY PROCLAMATION FOR PEACE
May 11, 2008 at 6:56 am (History, Peace, Poetry)
Mother’s Day Proclamation - 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.
Annie Besant said,
May 11, 2008 at 12:42 pm
Was it Desmond Morris who said recently that the world would be a better place if women ran everything?
desertpeace said,
May 11, 2008 at 12:47 pm
I’m not sure who said that but I hope they didn’t include Hillary in the statement
Linda K said,
May 11, 2008 at 5:23 pm
We always said we needed a woman in the White House to show men the kinder, gentler way to deal with others. Isn’t it ironic that this year the woman is the warmonger and her opponent embraces peace?
Let’s hope for a more peaceful Mother’s Day!
Scarlett said,
May 11, 2008 at 5:59 pm
This is just childish. This lady was ready to plunge us into a big global kindergarten, no thanks! There is a reason the word “woman” also means slave in most languages.
Fighting for your nation or your God is manly and good, fighting for a money-making corporation, a foreign slave master (Israel) or some other racket, which is what we are doing now, is servile and no good. If the USA had ever fought to stay a white, Christian nation, we would have come out ahead. Instead, we fight Endless Wars and inherit the wind.
CG said,
May 11, 2008 at 6:13 pm
I don’t know if people honestly think Obama is truly anti-iraq war or if they just like to pretend he is, but
if you meaning Obama is opposed to the war, sadly, that’s a false statement. Obama voted for war funding and reauthorization of the PATRIOT act, understanding his actions full well.
If you mean Nader or Paul, they are being honest in stating that they oppose the war.
For a more peaceful and informed world!
War Candidates said,
May 12, 2008 at 12:04 am
At least it will be an easy choice at the polls this November - all that is on offer are big-government interventionalists who put Israel’s interests first. No thanks!
Prissy said,
May 12, 2008 at 2:28 am
Hillary is too in touch with her masculine side…normally, yes women should run the world. As one young man of 8 told me “Ladies aren’t usually mean”