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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 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

Name: 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
Author: Young, Charles Sumner

Young, Charles Sumner

Barton, Clara, 1821-1912

Clara Barton—My dear young lady, do the first thing that comes to your
hand. Do it well. Then do the next thing. Do that well. Then do the next
thing, just so keep on doing——.

Clara Barton then pinned a Red Cross badge on each of these young
ladies, the happiest visitors when leaving, says Miss Barton’s
secretary, that he had ever seen in that “house of rough hemlock
boards.”

                                  XCVI

  Finally Clara Barton was forced out of her position in May, 1904.

                                                    _New York Examiner._

  Clara Barton—antagonism she encountered. But in all of them she bore
  herself with a poise that lost for her no friends.

                                               Utica (N. Y.) _Observer_.

  I know there is a God, and he hates injustice. A. LINCOLN.

  There were no heroes, there were no martyrs.

                                                          BULWER-LYTTON.

  Great women belong to history and self-sacrifice.

                                                             LEIGH HUNT.

  I am in the Garden of Gethsemane now, and my cup of bitterness is full
  to the overflowing. A. LINCOLN.

  Let us have faith that right makes might. A. LINCOLN.

  Why should there not be a patient confidence in the ultimate justice
  of the people? Is there any better, or equal, hope in the world? A.
  LINCOLN.

  Beneficence breeds gratitude, gratitude admiration, admiration fame,
  and the world remembers its benefactors.

                                               PRESIDENT WOODROW WILSON.

  To be great is to be misunderstood. RALPH WALDO EMERSON.

  The people will never understand the motive, and of course cannot
  comprehend that it was necessary for the “aspirants” to resort to
  “charges” in order to accomplish their purpose,—to gain possession of
  the Red Cross. CLARA BARTON.

  What you are speaks so loud I cannot hear what you say.

                                                    RALPH WALDO EMERSON.

  Crowns of roses fade; crowns of thorns endure. Calvaries and
  Crucifixions take deepest hold of humanity; the triumphs of might are
  transient, they pass and are forgotten; the sufferings of the right
  are graven deepest on the chronicles of nations.

                                                            FATHER RYAN.

             Alas! I have not words to tell my grief:
             To vent my sorrows would be some relief. DRYDEN.

                    For the heart must speak when
                  The lips are dumb. KATE PUTNAM OSGOOD.

  Clara Barton speaketh from the heart in eloquence pathetic and
  convincing; through her own words, written to Professor Charles Sumner
  Young at this time (1904), are “The most vital, and interesting of a
  wonderful life and a wonderful work, and few men hear of it without
  envy and emulation.” _New York Sun._

 THE PERSONAL CORRESPONDENCE—CLARA BARTON’S PROPOSED SELF-EXPATRIATION

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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—My dear young lady, do the first thing that comes to your
hand. Do it well. Then do the next thing. Do that well. Then do the next
thing, just so keep on doing——.

Clara Barton then pinned a Red Cross badge on each of these young
ladies, the happiest visitors when leaving, says Miss Barton’s
secretary, that he had ever seen in that “house of rough hemlock
boards.”

                                  XCVI

  Finally Clara Barton was forced out of her position in May, 1904.

                                                    _New York Examiner._

  Clara Barton—antagonism she encountered. But in all of them she bore
  herself with a poise that lost for her no friends.

                                               Utica (N. Y.) _Observer_.

  I know there is a God, and he hates injustice. A. LINCOLN.

  There were no heroes, there were no martyrs.

                                                          BULWER-LYTTON.

  Great women belong to history and self-sacrifice.

                                                             LEIGH HUNT.

  I am in the Garden of Gethsemane now, and my cup of bitterness is full
  to the overflowing. A. LINCOLN.

  Let us have faith that right makes might. A. LINCOLN.

  Why should there not be a patient confidence in the ultimate justice
  of the people? Is there any better, or equal, hope in the world? A.
  LINCOLN.

  Beneficence breeds gratitude, gratitude admiration, admiration fame,
  and the world remembers its benefactors.

                                               PRESIDENT WOODROW WILSON.

  To be great is to be misunderstood. RALPH WALDO EMERSON.

  The people will never understand the motive, and of course cannot
  comprehend that it was necessary for the “aspirants” to resort to
  “charges” in order to accomplish their purpose,—to gain possession of
  the Red Cross. CLARA BARTON.

  What you are speaks so loud I cannot hear what you say.

                                                    RALPH WALDO EMERSON.

  Crowns of roses fade; crowns of thorns endure. Calvaries and
  Crucifixions take deepest hold of humanity; the triumphs of might are
  transient, they pass and are forgotten; the sufferings of the right
  are graven deepest on the chronicles of nations.

                                                            FATHER RYAN.

             Alas! I have not words to tell my grief:
             To vent my sorrows would be some relief. DRYDEN.

                    For the heart must speak when
                  The lips are dumb. KATE PUTNAM OSGOOD.

  Clara Barton speaketh from the heart in eloquence pathetic and
  convincing; through her own words, written to Professor Charles Sumner
  Young at this time (1904), are “The most vital, and interesting of a
  wonderful life and a wonderful work, and few men hear of it without
  envy and emulation.” _New York Sun._

 THE PERSONAL CORRESPONDENCE—CLARA BARTON’S PROPOSED SELF-EXPATRIATION

Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.

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

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

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