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Clara Barton—representing the mercy and magnanimity of the nation. Columbus (Ohio) Despatch.
Clara Barton—her works of mercy in war and peace made her an international figure. New York Tribune.
Everybody’s business was nobody’s business, and the stricken victims perished. Clara Barton.
The door that never creaked a hinge for the feeble child of want may swing wide open at the thundering knock of the Marshal’s Staff. Clara Barton.
The incentive to help and heal another in distress is spontaneous, generally the result of sympathetic impulse and kindness—a thing of the feelings and consequently of sudden growth.
Clara Barton.
“The other ladies could not endure the climate at Morris Island,” and, as I knew somebody must take care of the soldiers, I went.
Clara Barton.
The idea of humanity in distress is not entirely modern;
Alexander was accompanied in his march by the most famous physicians of the age. Clara Barton.
Homer and Plato were so struck with Egyptian Science and skill that they declared the Egyptians were all doctors.
Clara Barton.
It is probable that the first practitioners in common life were women. Clara Barton.
A wise physician, skilled, our wounds to heal
Is more than armies to the public weal.
A sister and family followed me to Washington that I should not be quite alone in that slave city, for up to 1860 they bought and sold slaves at the Capital. Clara Barton.
When I think, I fear how supreme an International Court must have been to be able to induce the Southerners to liberate the slaves, or to convince them that “mudsills” and “greasy mechanics” and “horned yankees” are a people entitled to sufficient respect to be treated on fair international grounds. Clara Barton.