| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 5709 |
| QUOTATION: | 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. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Clara Barton (1821–1912), U.S. Civil War nurse and founder of the American Red Cross. As quoted in Angel of the Battlefield, ch. 19, by Ishbel Ross (1956).
From her 1901 report to the U.S. Congress; she still served as President of the American Red Cross. |
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