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Every woman who loves her country and who realizes what true patriotism means will always revere the name of Clara Barton, and connect it with the highest ideal of service to one’s country. Dr. Anna H. Shaw President American Woman Suffrage Association.
Clara Barton has won the hearts of the women of the world. Carrie Chapman Catt, President American Woman Suffrage Association.
John Marshall, for thirty-five years Chief Justice of the U. S. Supreme Court, held the female sex the equals of men.
Justice Joseph Story.
I had not learned to equip myself—for I was no Pallas ready armed but grew into my work by hard thinking and sad experience.
Clara Barton.
I am a woman and know what barriers oppose all womanly efforts. Harriet G. Hosmer.
Clara Barton is the best clerk, either man or woman, I ever had in my office. Mr. Mason, Commissioner of Patents.
It is less difficult for a woman to obtain celebrity by her genius than to be forgiven for it. Brissot.
Only the machinery and plans of Heaven move unerringly and we short-sighted mortals are, half our time, fain to complain of these. Clara Barton.
It is possible for the wisest even to build better than he knows.
Clara Barton.
Who furnished the Armies; who but the Mothers? Who reared the sons and taught them that liberty and their country was worth their blood? Who gave them up and wept their fall, nursed them in their suffering and mourned them, dead? Clara Barton.
There is none to give woman the right to govern herself, as men govern themselves by self-made and self-approved laws of the land.
Clara Barton.
Only the Great Jehovah can crown and anoint man for his work, and he reaches out and takes the crown and places it upon his head with his own hand. Clara Barton.
Whenever I have been urged as a petitioner to ask equal suffrage for women a kind of dazed, bewildered feeling comes over me.
Clara Barton.
In making an appeal to her soldiers for “votes for women” Clara Barton said: “When you were weak and I was strong, I toiled for you; now you are strong, and I am weak. Because of my work for you, I ask your aid; I ask the ballot for myself and my sex. As I stood by you, I pray you stand by me and mine.” The Author.
Clara Barton advocated “Votes for Women” on the platform of the First National Suffrage Convention in this country.
Buffalo (New York) Courier.