Man is not made better by being degraded; he is seldom restrained from crime by harsh measures, except the principle of fear predominates in his character; and then he is never made radically better for its influence. — 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 Image
I have no particular love for my species, but own to an exhaustless fund of compassion — Dorothea Dix Copy Share Image
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 Image
The tapestry of history has no point at which you can cut it and leave the design intelligible. — Dorothea Dix Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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