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.
Clara Barton (Universalist, social reformer, founder of American Red Cross)
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.
Clara Barton (Universalist, social reformer, founder of American Red Cross)
On every battlefield they lie, in the crowded yards of every prison ground, in the dark ravines of the tangled forest, in the miry poison swamps…in the drifting sands of the desert islands…there on their strange beds they sleep…They sleep, and you remember
Clara Barton, Speech to Grand Army of the Republic Memorial Day, 1879 (Universalist, reformer, founder of American Red Cross, humanitarian)
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.
