"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." ~ H.L. Mencken
The Original Anti-War Mother's Day
"The modern Mother's Day, with its apolitical message, emerged in the early Twentieth Century, with Howe's original intent largely erased from the mainstream consciousness. Howe's vision of an antiwar mother's call to action was watered-down into an annual expression of sentimentality."
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