"Few realize that Mother's Day began not as a day to take Mom out for dinner, but" as a day for women to rise and leave home"to plan how to have peace in our world."'
Julia Ward Howe, the Mother of Mother's Day called on women during the American Civil War to 'make a noise against the forces who would take away a peaceful world from every mother's child".
I have to work. But I sent my mother a CodePink Tshirt and a rose in her name to Laura Bush. And Sonny's girlfriend and I will go to the local action on the way to his farewell concert tonight.
That's what I want.
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. "
Mother's Day Declaration of 1870
Happy Mother's Day
