Gloria Steinem, Vanessa Williams, Felicity Huffman, Fatma Saleh, Alfre Woodard, Ashraf Salimian, and Christine Lahti talk about the origin of Mother’s Day by Julia Ward Howe as a protest against war.
“All that we have been able to teach them of charity, mercy and patience. / 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.” (Julia Ward Howe, Mother’s Day Proclamation – 1870)