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

by Charles Sumner Young

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Clara Barton represented the spirit that knows not race nor color.

New York Globe.

Charity and beneficence are degraded by being reduced to a dependence on a system of beggary. Clara Barton.

A grateful mind is a great mind. T. Secker.

There is not a more pleasing attitude of mind than gratitude.

Joseph Addison.

A grateful mind is not only the greatest of virtues but the greatest of all virtues. Cicero.

Don’t kneel to me—that is not right. You must kneel to God only, and thank Him for the liberty you will now enjoy. I am but God’s humble instrument. A. Lincoln.

Grateful to me! It is I who should be grateful, and I am.

Clara Barton.

We of South Carolina can never forget her contributions to the storm-wrecked people on our desolated sea-coast, after the fearful tempest of 1893. She came as an angel of mercy. With uncovered heads, and with profound deference, we bow to the blessed name of Clara Barton. The Southern Reporter.