Quotes from Mother's Day Proclamation — Julia Ward Howe
1819–1910 United States
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Arise, then, Christian women of this day! Arise, all women who have hearts, whether your baptism be that of water or of tears!
Mother's Day Proclamation (1870)
We, the women of one country, will be too tender to those of another country, to allow our sons to be trained to injure theirs.
Mother's Day Proclamation (1870)
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 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.
Mother's Day Proclamation (1870)