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
Clara Barton in the theme of her address here, “The Ministering
Angel,” urged the organization of Nurses’ Associations and Training
Schools for Nurses. Atlanta (Ga.) _Constitution_.
The great war-nurse, friend of the world. The loftiest eloquence could
give her none that more clearly expressed the keynote of her life.
Grand Rapids (Mich.) _Press_.
Come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe upon these slain that
they may live. EZEKIEL.
Nothing is impossible to Organized Womanhood,—united in aims and
effort. CAROLINE M. SEVERANCE—“Mother of Clubs.”
American nurses are covering their profession with a glory that will
live forever is the report that comes from France.
AMERICAN RED CROSS.
The nurse is proud to be chosen from millions of women anxious to care
for the sick, as the representative of American womanhood.
AMERICAN RED CROSS.
Thirty-two thousand graduate nurses have said to the American Red
Cross, “We are ready, use us.” AMERICAN RED CROSS.
Profane histories are three-fourths filled with the details of battles
and sieges, and almost silent as to any provision for the sick and
wounded. CLARA BARTON.
There were probably surgeons and nurses long before there were
military chieftains. CLARA BARTON.
Agrippina, wife of the General, distributed clothing and dressings to
the wounded. CLARA BARTON.
Courage of the soldier awakes the courage of woman. EMERSON.
Scarcely had man made his first move in organizing the Red Cross when
the jeweled hand of royal woman glistened beside him, and right
royally has she done her part. CLARA BARTON.
Women are, by nature, much better fitted for nurses than men can be.
CLARA BARTON.
Had there been need for them, the Red Cross could easily have
recruited an army of twenty-five thousand nurses from the flower of
American womanhood. CLARA BARTON.
Large organizations of women, the best in the country and I believe
the best in the world, have faithfully labored with me to merge the
Red Cross into their societies, as a part of woman’s work.
CLARA BARTON.
I have wrought day after day and night after night, so sorry for the
_necessity_, so glad for the opportunity,—ministering with my own
hands and strength to the dying wants of the patriot-martyrs, who fell
for their country and mine. CLARA BARTON.
To the army of nurses, brave, generous and true who, either as
auxiliaries at home or as nurses in the field, made up that
magnificent array of womanhood ready for sacrifice on the altar of
humanity and their country—no words of mine can do justice.
CLARA BARTON.
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