I proceed, gentlemen, to call your attention to the present state of insane persons confined within the commonwealth; … - Dorothea Dix - Quotesmemo.com

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Dorothea Dix

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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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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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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