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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.