Clara Barton Quotes

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You see, women have been essential to every great move of God. Yes, Moses led the Isaelites out of Egypt, but only after his mother risked her life to save him! Closer to our time, Clara Barton was instrumental in starting the Red Cross. Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin put fire into people's heart to end slavery in the United States. Rosa Parks kicked the Civil Rights movement into gear with her quiet act of courage. Eunice Kennedy Shriver created the Special Olympics. Mother Teresa inspired the world by bringing love to countless thought unlovable. And millions of other women quietly change the world every day by bringing the love of God to those around them.
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Stasi Eldredge (Your Captivating Heart: Discover How God's True Love Can Free a Woman's Soul)
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You must never so much think as whether you like it or not, whether it is bearable or not; you must never think of anything except the need, and how to meet it.
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Clara Barton
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It irritates me to be told how things have always been done. I defy the tyranny of precedent. I cannot afford the luxury of a closed mind.
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Clara Barton
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Martha Ballard is the great-aunt of Clara Barton, founder of the American Red Cross. She is also the great-great-grandmother of Mary Hobart, one of the first female physicians in the United States.
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Ariel Lawhon (The Frozen River)
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I have an almost complete disregard of precedent, and a faith in the possibility of something better. It irritates me to be told how things have always been done. I defy the tyranny of precedent. I go for anything new that might improve the past.
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Clara Barton (The Story of My Childhood (Signal Lives))
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The surest test of discipline is it's absence.
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Clara Barton
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While soldiers can stand and fight.I can fight and feed them
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He had illuminated the heartbreaking cruelty of war: When men who fight become nothing, only packages of bones and blood deposited in the earth with no clarion call to memory, those they love are left without a way to make such devastating loss hold meaning.
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Patricia O'Brien (The Glory Cloak: A Novel of Louisa May Alcott and Clara Barton)
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…all you can think about is Clara Barton, the feminist icon of your youth who had to teach herself how to be a nurse and endured abuse from men telling her what to do at every turn, and you remember being so *angry* and running to your parents and asking them if women still got told what was right or proper, and your mom said β€˜Yes’ and your dad said β€˜No,’ and you, for the first time, had an inkling of how complicated and terrible the world was…
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Carmen Maria Machado (In the Dream House)
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The door that nobody else will go in at, seems always to swing open widely for me.
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Clara Barton