"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."

- Juliet Ward Howe, Mother's Day Proclamation - 1870

Mother's Day was originally started after the Civil War, as a protest to the carnage of that war, by women who had lost their sons. This quote is part of the original Mother's Day Proclamation.