Clara Barton Quotes
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.
Pryor, Elizabeth Brown. Clara Barton, Professional Angel. University of Pennsylvania Press, 1987, p. 43.
The strategy of pushing for equal treatment in Government employment first so as to influence the private employment sector developed by Lockwood was employed almost 80 years later by American Blacks in the Civil Rights movement.
Clarissa Harlowe Barton was an American nurse who founded the American Red Cross. She was a hospital nurse in the American Civil War, a teacher, and a patent clerk. Since nursing education was not then very formalized and she did not attend nursing school, she provided self-taught nursing care. Barton is noteworthy for doing humanitarian work and civil rights advocacy at a time before women had the right to vote. She was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame in 1973.
