Clara Barton Quotes

United States, Nurse
December 25, 1821 – April, 12, 1912.

Clarissa "Clara" Harlowe Barton (December 25, 1821 – April 12, 1912) was a pioneering nurse who founded the American Red Cross. She was a hospital nurse in the American Civil War, a teacher, and patent clerk. Nursing education was not very formalized at that time and she did not attend nursing school, so she provided self-taught nursing care. Barton is noteworthy for doing humanitarian work at a time when relatively few women worked outside the home.

Also known as Public Servant

I may sometimes be willing to teach for nothing, but if paid at all, I shall never do a man's work for less than a man's pay.

Clara Barton
- Work
- May
- Pay
I went to the Senate, accomplished nothing as usual.

Clara Barton
- Senate

This conflict is one thing I've been waiting for. I'm well and strong and young - young enough to go to the front. If I can't be a soldier, I'll help soldiers.

Clara Barton
- Help
- Strong
- Waiting
The Red Cross in its nature, it aims and purposes, and consequently, its methods, is unlike any other organization in the country.It is an organization of physical action, of instantaneous action, at the spur of the moment; it cannot await the ordinary deliberation of organized bodies if it would be of use to suffering humanity,[ellipsis in original] it has by its nature a field of its own.

Clara Barton
- Country
- Nature
- Action
I may be compelled to face danger, but never fear it, and while our soldiers can stand and fight, I can stand and feed and nurse them.

Clara Barton
- May
- Fear
- Fight
I founded the American Red Cross.

Clara Barton
- American
- Red
- Red Cross
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
- Evil
- Suffering
- Movement
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
- God
- Father
- Soul

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

Clara Barton
- Business
Let me go, let me go.

Clara Barton
- Go
The surest test of discipline is its absence.

Clara Barton
- Discipline
While soldiers can stand and fight.I can fight and feed them

Clara Barton
- Fight
- Soldiers