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

President Woodrow Wilson.

To be great is to be misunderstood. Ralph Waldo Emerson.

The people will never understand the motive, and of course cannot comprehend that it was necessary for the “aspirants” to resort to “charges” in order to accomplish their purpose,—to gain possession of the Red Cross. Clara Barton.

What you are speaks so loud I cannot hear what you say.

Ralph Waldo Emerson.

Crowns of roses fade; crowns of thorns endure. Calvaries and Crucifixions take deepest hold of humanity; the triumphs of might are transient, they pass and are forgotten; the sufferings of the right are graven deepest on the chronicles of nations.

Father Ryan.

Alas! I have not words to tell my grief:

To vent my sorrows would be some relief. Dryden.

For the heart must speak when