“Arise then, women of this day!”
We must lead the way
We must find the courage to face the horror
We must come together
Out of the despair
We must move
Beyond personal desperation
To make our collective power
Visible
Women: Rise!
Stand together
All over the world
To demand-with a thundering cry
No More War!
Let us meet first, as women, to bewail and commemorate the dead,
Julia Ward Howe pleaded in her 1870 Mothers’ Day Proclamation.
“Arise, then, women of this day!
Arise all women who have hearts.
In the name of womanhood and of humanity
And for the sake of the good, green Earth
Rise, Women, Rise!*
- Clare Hanrahan,
author of, Jailed for
Justice, A Woman’s Guide to Federal Prison Camp (part of a speech given
Mother’s Day, 2002, at the University of North Carolina at Asheville,
Clare can be reached at -
chanrahan@ncpress.net)
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