[Oe List ...] poem

[ken whitney]

Wow!  Sounds Greek.  What is WAND's website?  Glad to know you're still
riding herd on this stuff, besides praying harder.  Love, Clare

Charles or Doris Hahn wrote:

> The more things change, the more they are the same.
> Doris Hahn
>
> Arise, then, women of this Day!
> Arise all women who have hearts, whether your 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 out 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
> the means whereby the great human family can live in
> peace,
> And each bearing after her own time the sacred
> impress, not of Ceasar, but of God.
> -Julia Ward Howe, 1870
>
> Distributed by Atlanta WAND, the local chapter of
> Women'a Action for New Directions, a national
> organization which seeks to channel womens voices into
> a powerful movement for change
>
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