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Tue Apr-18-06 04:31 PM
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First Mothers' Day 1870 was antiwar protest according to Pinkers |
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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
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Tue Apr-18-06 04:36 PM
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"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."
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Tue Apr-18-06 05:37 PM
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4. wwooooooodamnwhooooo! MOTHER'S DAY! |
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Tue Apr-18-06 05:57 PM
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8. Hey! That's "Muthas' day" |
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Tue Apr-18-06 06:01 PM
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10. Hey, I like that tooooo! |
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Tue Apr-18-06 04:50 PM
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2. It's a fun fact with which to make FReepers heads explode nt |
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Tue Apr-18-06 05:40 PM
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6. My favorite thing to do! |
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Tue Apr-18-06 04:52 PM
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3. Before she became a freeper, my hippie mother used to say: |
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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:)
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Tue Apr-18-06 05:38 PM
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5. Where have all the good people gone? by can't remember |
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Edited on Tue Apr-18-06 05:38 PM by lonestarnot
Sam Roberts, I really like that tune.
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Tue Apr-18-06 05:58 PM
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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
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Tue Apr-18-06 06:03 PM
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11. A few discouraging incidents, then Rush Limbaugh |
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swooping in to save the old self-esteem.
That's my take, anyway.
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Tue Apr-18-06 06:23 PM
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12. That happened to my very favorite uncle surrogate father |
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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.
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Tue Apr-18-06 05:53 PM
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Tue Apr-18-06 06:26 PM
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13. Our sons shall not be taken from us . . . |
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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.
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Tue Apr-18-06 09:42 PM
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14. I will not sacrifice my son to the bushitler idol. |
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