Best 6 quotes in «red cross quotes» category

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.

...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]

Most men in the ward were now convalescing. To her, "each day the nurse's duties became lighter and therefore more irksome.

The Red Cross, our last hope, had left us to starve.

She was never neutral, but she could be tolerant, although it was hard work - never a tolerance of indifference.

I founded the American Red Cross.