Dorothea Dix Quotes

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• But the truth is the highest consideration.
• I have no particular love for my species, but own to an exhaustless fund of compassion
• I proceed, gentlemen, to call your attention to the present state of insane persons confined within the commonwealth; in cages, closets, cellars, stalls, pens; chained,…
• I have learned to live each day as it comes, and not to borrow trouble by dreading tomorrow.
• A man usually values that most for which he has labored; he uses that most frugally which he has toiled hour by hour and day…
• The reason husbands and wives do not understand each other is because they belong to different sexes
• I think even lying on my bed I can still do something.
• While we diminish the stimulant of fear, we must increase to prisoners the incitements of hope, in proportion as we extinguish the terrors of the…
• The tapestry of history has no point at which you can cut it and leave the design intelligible.
• 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…
• In a world where there is so much to be done, I felt strongly impressed that there must be something for me to do
• 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…

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