I come to present the strong claims of suffering humanity. I come to place before the Legislature of … - Dorothea Dix

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Faith and character are intimately related. Faith in the power of obedience to the commandments of God will forge strength of character available to you in times of urgent need.

Dorothea Dix

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; of beings sunk to a condition from which the unconcerned world would start with real horror.

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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, naked, beaten with rods, and lashed into obedience.

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Every evil has its good, and every ill an antidote.

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Of all the calamities to which humanity is subject, none is so dreadful as insanity. . . . All experience shows that insanity seasonably treated is as certainly curable as a cold or a fever.

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Man is not made better by being degraded.

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Brains are still unfashionable for women to wear, and it has always been proof of women's superiority that the more intelligent a man is, the more women admire him, while the bigger fool a woman is, the more men run after her.

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