Influence
The Red Cross symbol used by the International Committee of the Red Cross, a red cross on white background, was the original protection symbol declared at the first Geneva Convention, the Convention for the Amelioration of the Condition of the Wounded in Armies in the Field of 1864. According to the ICRC the design was based on the Swiss flag by reversing of the colours of that flag, in order to honor Switzerland, where the first Geneva Convention was held. However, no historic record has been found of an association of the Red Cross emblem with the flag of Switzerland earlier than 1906.
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“We could not well camp higher, for want of fuel; and the trees here seemed so evergreen and sappy, that we almost doubted if they would acknowledge the influence of fire; but fire prevailed at last, and blazed here, too, like a good citizen of the world.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
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“You can never really live anyone elses life, not even your childs. The influence you exert is through your own life, and what youve become yourself.”
—Eleanor Roosevelt (18841962)