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

XXXV

Minerva, the goddess of wisdom, was the greatest feminine mind of the ancient deities concerned in human welfare. The Author.

Bring the feminine mind to bear upon all that concerns the welfare of mankind. Julia Ward Howe.

Judge—You voted as a woman, did you not?

Miss Anthony—No, sir, I voted as a citizen of the United States.

Susan B. Anthony.

(In 1872, she then being under arrest for voting

for President of the United States.)

Let us “push things” so that every state in the union shall speedily surrender to the advocates of women’s equality and elevation.

Mary A. Livermore—Jan. 8, 1870.

American women and students of American history have long deplored the meagre credit which has been given to women for the part they have taken in the progress and achievement of America, as a nation. Mrs. John A. Logan.

In “Part Taken by Women in American History.”

I know nothing remarkable I have done. The hum-drum of my every day life seems to me quite without incident. Clara Barton.

Speaking of myself, and my own doings, is a thing very distasteful to me. Clara Barton.

THE RED CROSS HOME OF CLARA BARTON, GLEN ECHO, MARYLAND
“Clara Barton to the end kept open house at her Glen Echo home, for the soldier boys.”
“The Red Cross House at Glen Echo was a flag museum of historical achievements.”
Historical ground carries its own sentiment: Mount Vernon, American Liberty; Monticello, American Democracy; Glen Echo, World Humanity.