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Mother's Day Proclamation of 1870 by Julia Ward Howe
Arise then...women of this day! Arise, all women who have hearts!… 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 -
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