The Croatian Red Cross (Croatian: Hrvatski Crveni križ) is the national Red Cross Society of Croatia.
The organization has over 370,000 volunteer members, as well as 550 professionals. The Red Cross has been active in the country since 1878.
Famous quotes containing the words red and/or cross:
“How red the rose that is the soldier’s wound,
The wounds of many soldiers, the wounds of all
The soldiers that have fallen, red in blood,
The soldier of time grown deathless in great size.”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)
“It was mankind that hung on the cross for two thousand years: and a terrible god practiced his cruelty and called it “love.””
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)