Inspirational Quotations

Inspirational Quotes by Clara Barton (American Humanitarian)

Clara Barton (1821–1912,) fully Clarissa Harlowe Barton, was an American teacher and social reformer. A one-time schoolteacher, she never obtained any formal training in nursing but established the American Red Cross and was its first president 1881–1904.

Born in Oxford, Massachusetts, Barton was a schoolteacher (1836–54) and worked in the Patent Office in Washington, D.C. (1854–57.) During the Civil War (1861–65,) she helped obtain and allocate supplies and amenities for the injured. At the proposal of President Abraham Lincoln in 1865, she established a bureau of records to search for missing men.

In Europe for health reasons (1869–73,) Barton worked for the International Red Cross in the Franco-Prussian War (1870–71.) Back in America, she founded the U.S. chapter of the Red Cross in 1881 and became its first president (1881–1904.) Based on her campaign, America endorsed the Geneva Convention in 1882, providing for the reciprocal treatment of the wounded. In her later years, Barton emerged as a women’s suffrage movement leader.

Barton’s papers are in the Library of Congress. She wrote History of the Red Cross (1882,) The Red Cross in Peace and War (1899,) and The Story of My Childhood (1907.) William E. Barton wrote The Life of Clara Barton: Founder of the American Red Cross (2 vols., 1922.)

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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
Topics: Fortune

I only wish I could work to some purpose … . I have no right to these easy comfortable days and our poor men suffering and dying thirsting in this hot sun and I so quiet here in want of nothing.
Clara Barton
Topics: Purpose

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
Topics: The Military, Danger

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