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

The Red Cross is the Big Brother of the Fighting Man.

General Leonard Wood.

The Red Cross is the most generally recognized humanitarian movement in the known world. Clara Barton.

The Red Cross has awakened the senses, and attuned the public ear to the cry of distress wherever emanating. Clara Barton.

The Treaty of Geneva takes its powers from the common consent of the United Governments of the civilized world.

Clara Barton.

Human intelligence has devised the provisions of the Red Cross, and it is peculiarly adapted to popular favor. Clara Barton.

It is probable that no sign nor figure in the secular world is sacred to so many people as is the Red Cross of Geneva. Clara Barton.

The insignia, which has given its name to the Treaty of Geneva, has become universally known and respected. Clara Barton.

The Red Cross never leads, but follows, in all military matters.