I come to present the strong claims of suffering humanity. I come to place before the Legislature of Massachusetts the condition of the miserable, the desolate, the outcast. I come as the advocate of helpless, forgotten, insane men and women;… — Dorothea Dix Copy Share Image
[To a woman who claimed she'd rather be dead than unconfined and unfashionable:] My dear, if you continue to lace as tightly as you… — Dorothea Dix Copy Share
I have no particular love for my species, but own to an exhaustless fund of compassion — Dorothea Dix Copy Share
While we diminish the stimulant of fear, we must increase to prisoners the incitements of hope, in proportion as we extinguish the terrors of… — Dorothea Dix Copy Share
The tapestry of history has no point at which you can cut it and leave the design intelligible. — Dorothea Dix Copy Share
Society, during the last hundred years, has been alternately perplexed and encouraged, respecting the two great questions -how shall the criminal and pauper be… — Dorothea Dix Copy Share
I proceed, gentlemen, to call your attention to the present state of insane persons confined within the commonwealth; in cages, closets, cellars, stalls, pens;… — Dorothea Dix Copy Share
A man usually values that most for which he has labored; he uses that most frugally which he has toiled hour by hour and… — Dorothea Dix Copy Share
in proportion as my own discomfort has increased, my conviction of necessity to search into the wants of the friendless and afflicted has deepened.… — Dorothea Dix Copy Share
I come to present the strong claims of suffering humanity. I come to place before the Legislature of Massachusetts the condition of the miserable,… — Dorothea Dix Copy Share
I have learned to live each day as it comes, and not to borrow trouble by dreading tomorrow. — Dorothea Dix Copy Share
