Red Cross Quotes

“She was never neutral, but she could be tolerant, although it was hard work - never a tolerance of indifference.”
― Mary Allsebrook, Born to Rebel: The Life of Harriet Boyd Hawes

“...she had discovered within herself the unlikely gift for functioning with equilibrium and efficiency inside a full-blown, unending nightmare. [A Red Cross worker during WWII in Italy]”
― James Carroll, Warburg in Rome

“Her unique observations are about how the war
impacted people—from the thrill-seekers going to battlefields for fun, to the nurses working among the wounded in darkness, and London society women venturing into foreign lands to work near dangerous enemy lines.”
― Noel Marie Fletcher, The Strange Side of War: A Woman's WWI Diary

“The Red Cross, our last hope, had left us to starve.”
― Savo Heleta, Not My Turn to Die: Memoirs of a Broken Childhood in Bosnia

“Most men in the ward were now convalescing. To her, "each day the nurse's duties became lighter and therefore more irksome.”
― Mary Allsebrook, Born to Rebel: The Life of Harriet Boyd Hawes

“The Following verses were conceived with the sole purpose of rending a mite of aid to the American Red Cross Society and to its faithful friends and assistants, the “war dogs”; and all royalties derived from the sale of this little volume will be devoted to that cause. (Author's Note)”
― Edward Peple, The War Dog