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

Transitions are neither rapid nor easy. Dark days, if not dark ages, have shadowed them all. Clara Barton.

The Red Cross is one of the thresholds to the Temple of Peace.

Clara Barton, President, Red Cross.

Respect for the rights of others is peace.

Benito Juarez, President, Republic of Mexico.

The history of a country is mainly the history of wars.

Clara Barton.

Men have worshipped at Valkyria’s shrine and followed her siren lead until war has cost a million times more than the whole world is worth; poured out the best blood and crushed the finest forms that God has ever created. Clara Barton.

There is in the Red Cross no entangling alliances that any but a barbarian at war can feel any restraint. Clara Barton.

There is not a peace society on the face of the earth today, nor can there be one, so potent, so effectual against war as the Red Cross of Geneva. Clara Barton.