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 Government of my country is my country, and the people of my country are the government of my country as nearly as a representative system will allow. Clara Barton.

The Government which I thought I loved, and loyally tried to serve, has shut every door in my face, and stared at me insultingly through its windows. Clara Barton.

The humanity of peoples is beyond that of Governments.

Clara Barton.

Ingratitude! Thou marble-hearted fiend, more hideous when thou showest thee in a child than the sea monster.

Shakespeare.

Of all the anguish our Heavenly Father calls us to endure—none pierces more keenly, nor wounds more deeply, than the sting of ingratitude. Clara Barton.

Dear Clara Barton! I hope that somewhere she is reaping a glorious reward of her life-long heroism and self-sacrifice. Mrs. La Salle Corbell Pickett.

Clara Barton will still live as a potential force for good, and coming centuries will see her labors carried on even as they were carried on while she directed them in person.

Springfield (Illinois) News.