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

XCII

Honor any requisition Clara Barton makes; she outranks me.

General B. F. Butler.

The Jury passing on the prisoner’s life may in the sworn twelve have a thief or two guiltier than him they try. Shakespeare.

A felon’s cell—

The fittest earthly type of hell. Whittier.

Prison—the living grave of Crime. Joaquin Miller.

Prison—Young Crime’s finishing school. Mrs. Bulfour.

Every penitentiary should be a real reformatory—the discipline of the average prison hardens and degrades—the criminal should be treated with kindness. R. G. Ingersoll.

Even the most obstinate yields to the rule of kindness, firmly and steadily administered. Clara Barton.