Clara Barton: A Centenary Tribute to the World's Greatest Humanitarian: Founder of the American Red Cross Society, Author of the American Amendment to the International Red Cross Convention of Geneva, Founder of the National First Aid Association of AmericaYoung, Charles Sumner
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Clara Barton: A Centenary Tribute to the World's Greatest Humanitarian: Founder of the American Red Cross Society, Author of the American Amendment to the International Red Cross Convention of Geneva, Founder of the National First Aid Association of America
Young, Charles Sumner
Barton, Clara, 1821-1912
I will take back the check for his winter feed as useless now; but
wish to enclose in this ten dollars for the last tender care and
burial, with the assurance that you will always hold a high place in
my esteem and affection for the kind and manly part you have taken in
this little episode of life’s woes.
Let me repeat from your letter this sentiment, the hope that we may be
friends while life shall last.
Yours gratefully,
CLARA BARTON.
LXIX
Resolved, in behalf of the State of Texas especially does the
legislature thank Clara Barton, President of the Red Cross Society.
Approved February 1, 1901.
A tribute of honor, of which sovereigns might be proud, clothed in
language the eloquence of which our English tongue does not surpass.
CLARA BARTON.
Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for
his friends. ST. JOHN.
Clara Barton is the embodiment of the saving principle of laying down
one’s life for one’s friends. Her achievements are greater than the
conquest of nations or the inventions of genius, and who is justly
crowned in the even-tide of her life with the love and admiration of
all humanity.
Central Relief Committee of Galveston, Texas.
The name of Clara Barton has ever been a cherished one in our
Southland, and the Red Cross the symbol of the most noble charity.
MRS. ROSENE RYAN, Chairman, the Governor’s Relief Committee for
Clothing, March 5, 1901.
It proves to us more strongly than ever, after the experience we have
had since the arrival of Miss Barton, that “woman rules the world, as
she has always done.” MRS. JENS MOLLER, of the Central Relief
Committee, November 13, 1900.
No name in Texas is today dearer to its people than that of Clara
Barton. Red Cross Committee, 1903.
How much of the heroic there is in our people when it is needed.
CLARA BARTON.
The Red Cross has come to be the first thought of any community
suddenly overtaken by disaster. CLARA BARTON.
The Red Cross creates an organized neutral volunteer force, from the
people, supplied by the people. CLARA BARTON.
The Red Cross is the outward and practical expression of that
universal sympathy that goes out from millions of homes and firesides;
from the heart of the nation to humanity in distress.
CLARA BARTON.
Not one dollar, for twenty years or more, on twenty fields of national
disaster, has there been drawn from the Treasury of the United
States,—the beneficence of the people through their awakened
characters were equal to all needs. CLARA BARTON.
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