Sheriff Ida Red is a comic book and cartoon character created by writer/cartoonist Paul Dini.
According to her origin story, young Ida was found as an orphaned baby in the desert outside of remote Mutant, Texas. Raised by the strange inhabitants of the town (a mixture of southwestern plant and animal mutants) teen-aged Ida was convinced she was an outcast until she developed amazing super powers of her own. Later appointed Sheriff, Ida now serves as guardian and peacekeeper of the unique little town.
Famous quotes containing the words sheriff, ida and/or red:
“The man’s an M.D., like you. He’s entitled to his opinion. Or do you want me to charge him with confusing a country doctor?”
—Robert M. Fresco. Jack Arnold. Sheriff Jack Andrews (Nestor Paiva)
“When Abraham Lincoln penned the immortal emancipation proclamation he did not stop to inquire whether every man and every woman in Southern slavery did or did not want to be free. Whether women do or do not wish to vote does not affect the question of their right to do so.”
—Mary E. Haggart, U.S. suffragist. As quoted in History of Woman Suffrage, vol. 4, ch. 3, by Susan B. Anthony and Ida Husted Harper (1902)
“The Red Cross in its nature, it aims and purposes, and consequently, its methods, is unlike any other organization in the country. It is an organization of physical action, of instantaneous action, at the spur of the moment; it cannot await the ordinary deliberation of organized bodies if it would be of use to suffering humanity, ... [ellipsis in original] it has by its nature a field of its own.”
—Clara Barton (1821–1912)