Clara Barton Quotes - Page 2

• An institution or reform movement that is not selfish, must originate in the recognition of some evil that is adding to the sum of human suffering, or diminishing the sum of happiness.

  Clara Barton

  Selfish, Evil, Suffering

  Clara Barton (1899). “The Red Cross in peace and war”

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• Long ago I added to the true old adage of "What is everybody's business is nobody's business," another clause which, I think, morethan any other principle has served to influence my actions in life. That is, What is nobody's business is my business.

  Clara Barton

  Thinking, Long Ago, Principles

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• What armies and how much of war I have seen, what thousands of marching troops, what fields of slain, what prisons, what hospitals, what ruins, what cities in ashes, what hunger and nakedness, what orphanages, what widowhood, what wrongs and what vengeance.

  Clara Barton

  War, Army, Cities

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• My business is staunching blood, and feeding fainting men.

  Clara Barton

  Men, Blood, Feeding

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• I wonder if a soldier ever does mend a bullet hole in his coat?

  Clara Barton

  Soldier, Dodging Bullets, Doe

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• Let me go, let me go.

  Clara Barton

  Let Me Go, Last Words, Let Me

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• Otros escriben mi biografía, y la dejan reposar como ellos deciden hacerla. He vivido mi vida, bien y mal, siempre menos bien de lo que yo quería pero es, como es, y como ha sido; ¡tan poca cosa, para haber tenido tanto sobre ella!

  Clara Barton

  Writing, Biographies, Ill

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• I was only one woman alone, and had no power to move to action full-fed, sleek- coated, ease-loving, pleasure-seeking, well-paid,and well-placed countrymen in this war- trampled, dead, old land, each one afraid that he should be called upon to do something.

  Clara Barton

  War, Moving, Pleasure Seeking

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• Economy, prudence, and a simple life are the sure masters of need, and will often accomplish that which, their opposites, with a fortune at hand, will fail to do.

  Clara Barton

  Simple, Hands, Opposites

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• Oh northern mothers wives and sisters, all unconscious of the hour, would to Heaven that I could bear for you the concentrated woe which is so soon to follow, would that Christ would teach
  my soul a prayer that would plead to the Father for grace sufficient for you, God pity and strengthen you every one.

  Clara Barton

  Mother, Prayer, Father

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