First Mothers' Day 1870 was antiwar protest according to Pinkers

[lonestarnot]

Arise, then, women of this day! Arise all women who have hearts,
whether our 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 our 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 to the
means whereby the great human family can live in peace, each
bearing after their own time the sacred impress, not of Caesar,
but of God.

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

Julia Ward Howe
Boston
1870


STOP THE WAR OF LIES BASTARDS
Lonestarnot
2006

[EFerrari]

1. Oh, YES it was!

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

:kick:

[lonestarnot]

4. wwooooooodamnwhooooo! MOTHER'S DAY!

[EFerrari]

8. Hey! That's "Muthas' day"

:evilgrin:

[lonestarnot]

10. Hey, I like that tooooo!

:evilgrin:

[alphafemale]

2. It's a fun fact with which to make FReepers heads explode nt

[lonestarnot]

6. My favorite thing to do!

[SmokingJacket]

3. Before she became a freeper, my hippie mother used to say:

IF women ran the world, there would be no more wars, because women have babies, and no one wants their baby or anyone else's to die for no reason.

(What the hell happened to her?? :cry:)

[lonestarnot]

5. Where have all the good people gone? by can't remember

Sam Roberts, I really like that tune.

[EFerrari]

9. What DID happen?

I guess I was lucky. My mom was a hippie before there were hippies. Then, I was a hippie, then I had two boys -- and you can imagine how that goes. lol

[SmokingJacket]

11. A few discouraging incidents, then Rush Limbaugh

swooping in to save the old self-esteem.

That's my take, anyway.

[EFerrari]

12. That happened to my very favorite uncle surrogate father

when they killed RFK. My uncle is the very best man I know and something snapped in him when they killed Bobby.

I don't understand it, but there it is.

[lonestarnot]

7. kick'n for all Moms!

[gratuitous]

13. Our sons shall not be taken from us . . .

If I had offspring, I'd make this a Father's Day prayer, too. There is nothing redemptive about violence, and "the sword of murder is NOT the balance of justice."

Amen and amen.

[lonestarnot]

14. I will not sacrifice my son to the bushitler idol.

:angry: