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

America had freed a race. Clara Barton.

A gift must be outright. Clara Barton.

Our gifts fall short of the best. Clara Barton.

Charity and beneficence are degraded by being reduced to a dependence upon a system of beggary. Clara Barton.

Charity bears an open palm; to give is her mission.

Clara Barton.

How good it is to make two blades of grass grow where was one.

Clara Barton.

I know I am right because I know liberty is right. A. Lincoln.

The colored people would probably help, in some trying time, to keep the jewel of liberty in the family of freedom. A. Lincoln.