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

Clara Barton.

The Red Cross has given rise to most valuable inventions and, under its humane impulses, sanitary science has made rapid progress.

Clara Barton.

Inspired by the love of humanity and the world-wide motto of the Red Cross: “In time of peace and prosperity, prepare for war and calamity.” Clara Barton.

© Clinedinst, Washington, D. C.
AMBASSADOR BAKHMETEFF
The veneration in which Russians of every class hold the name of Clara Barton.—Russian Ambassador Boris Bakhmeteff (in Boston in 1917).
The Ambassador requested me to transmit to you the expression of every loyal Russian appreciation for the splendid work done by the American Red Cross during the last war, and especially for its assistance to the needy in Russia.—G. Gagarine, First Secretary to the Embassy (in Washington in 1920).

Some forty nations are in the Red Cross treaty, and from every military hospital in every one of these nations floats the same flag.

Clara Barton.

Of all existing organizations, there is possibly not one that has causes for sentiment of higher devotion and more prayerful gratitude than the Red Cross, which owes its very life to pity and help for the woes of the world. Clara Barton.

The Red Cross means not national aid for the needs of the people, but the people’s aid for the needs of the nation.