Berdasarkan sejarah Hari ibu awalnya dirayakan oleh bangsa Yunani Kuno sebagai penghargaan kepada Rhea, ibu dari para dewa, yang dilaksanakan ketika matahari berada di atas garis ekuator di Asia kecil (tanggal 15 sampai 18 Maret setiap tahun) atau dikenal dengan istilah vernal equinox. Bangsa Inggris mengawali perayaan hari ibu, sejak tahun 1600 an yang dikenal dengan nama “Mothering Sunday” yang dilaksanakan triwulan pertama setiap tahun.
Mother's Day Proclamation
Arise, all women who have hearts,
Whether our baptism be of water or of tears!
Say firmly:
"We will not have great questions decided by irrelevant agencies,
Our husbands will 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, the 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 plough 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 solemnly take counsel with each other as to the means
Whereby the great human family can live in peace,
Each bearing after his own time the sacred impress, not of Caesar,
But of God.
In the name of womanhood and humanity, I earnestly ask
That a general congress of women without limit of nationality
May be appointed and held at someplace deemed most convenient
And at the earliest period consistent with its objects,
To promote the alliance of the different nationalities,
The amicable settlement of international questions,
The great and general interests of peace.
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"Sudah lama bunga Indonesia tiada mengeluarkan harumnja, semendjak sekar jang terkemudian sudah mendjadi laju. Tetapi sekarang bunga Indonesia sudah kembang kembali, kembang ditimpa tjahaja bulan persatuan Indonesia; dalam bulan jang terang benderang ini, berbaulah sugandi segala bunga-bungaan jang harum, dan menarik hati jang tahu akan harganja bunga sebagai hiasan alam jang diturunkan Ilahi. (Soekarno, Kongres Kaum Ibu, 1928)
Benar kata sebuah lagu, ibu itu bagai sang surya yang menyinari dunia. Yang ironisnya sering menjadi korban dari lelaki yang dia “buat” menjadi besar, termahsyur. Ibu dimanapun mereka berada selalu memkirkan yang terbaik buat anak-anak dan keluarga, ketika para ayah keluar dan bermain-main dengan api, si ibu akan berusaha mempertahankan anak-anak dan keluarga dari ancaman api itu sampai tetes darah penghabisan.
Seperti udara kasih yang engkau berikan, tak sanggup ku membalas……….. (Iwan Fals)
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