clara barton

“ Everybody's business is nobody's business, and nobody's business is my business. ”

“ I write letters home for wounded soldiers, not political addresses. ”

“ It is an organization of physical action, of instantaneous action, at the spur of the moment. ”

“ You glorify the women who made their way to the front to reach you in your misery, and nurse you back to life. ”

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

“ My business is stanching blood and feeding fainting men; my post the open field between the bullet and the hospital. ”

“ I founded the American Red Cross. ”

“ The door that nobody else will go in at, seems always to swing open widely for me. ”

“ 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. ”

“ Let his work be that of angels, still it will not satisfy all. ”