Courage Is Calling – Quote #15

Her work in Crimea, done under fire and at grave personal risk—indeed, she picked up “Crimean fever” (brucellosis), which plagued her for the rest of her life—would inspire the founding of the Red Cross. Her innovations, her pioneering work afterward in systematizing the care of the sick and vulnerable, continues to benefit anyone who has ever been to a hospital in the 180 years since she stepped off the path that so many others had tried to intimidate her into staying on.