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Clara Barton Biography

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 Clara 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.

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People should not say that this or that is not worth learning, giving as their reason that it will not be put to use. They can no more know what information they will need in the future than they will know the weather two hundred years from today.

Hundred, Know, Two, Weather, Years

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.

Evil, Originate, Recognition, Selfish, Suffering, Sum

I went to the Senate, accomplished nothing as usual.

Accomplished, Senate, Usual

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.

Bearable, Like, Meet, Needs, Nursing, Thinking

I founded the American Red Cross.

American, American Red Cross, Crosses, Founded, Red

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

American Red Cross, Business, Inspirational, Unique

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.

Help, Soldier, Strong, Waiting

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.

Business, Influence, Life, Long Ago, Principles, Thinking

My business is stanching blood and feeding fainting men; my post the open field between the bullet and the hospital. I sometimes discuss the application of a compress or a wisp of hay under a broken limb, but not the bearing and merits of a political movement. I make gruel--not speeches; I write letters home for wounded soldiers, not political addresses.

Discuss, Home, Hospital, Men, Under, Writing

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.

Danger, Face, Fear, Fighting, Military, War

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.

Irritates, Luxury, Nurse, Nursing, Precedent, Tyranny

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.

May, Men, Nothing, Pay, Willing

If woman alone had suffered under these mistaken traditions [of women's subordination], if she could have borne the evil by herself, it would have been less pitiful, but her brother man, in the laws he created and ignorantly worshipped, has suffered with her. He has lost her highest help; he has crippled the intelligence he needed; he has belittled the very source of his own being and dwarfed the image of his Maker.

Belittled, Brother, Crippled, Law, Maker, Men

I have never worked for fame or praise, and shall not feel their loss as I otherwise would. I have never for a moment lost sight of the humble life I was born to, its small environments, and the consequently little right I had to expect much of myself, and shall have the less to censure, or upbraid myself with for the failures I must see myself make.

Failure, Humble, Humility, Lost, Upbraid

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

Door, Doors, Nobody, Nursing, Swings, Widely

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.

Countrymen, Dead, Moving, Pleasure Seeking, Trampled, War

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.

Country, Cross, Humanity, Moment, Nature, Organization

While soldiers can stand and fight. I can fight and feed them

Feed, Fight, Fighting, I Can, Soldier, Soldiers

My business is staunching blood, and feeding fainting men.

Blood, Business, Feeding, Men

If I were to speak of war, it would not be to show you the glories of conquering armies but the mischief and misery they strew in their tracks; and how, while they marched on with tread of iron and plumes proudly tossing in the breeze, some one must follow closely in their steps, crouching to the earth, toiling in the rain and darkness, shelterless themselves, with no thought of pride or glory, fame or praise, or reward; hearts breaking with pity, faces bathed in tears and hands in blood. This is the side which history never shows.

Heart, History, Praise, Rain, Tears, War

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