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Dorothea Dix

in proportion as my own discomfort has increased, my conviction of necessity to search into the wants of the friendless and afflicted has deepened. If I am cold, they too are cold; if I am weary, they are distressed; if I am alone, they are abandoned.

Cold, Compassion, Conviction, Increased, Proportion, Want
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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.

Massachusetts, Men, Place, Real, Strong, Unconcerned

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.

Cages, Gentleman, Insane, Insane Person, Rods

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

Antidote, Evil, Good, Ill

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.

Fever, Humanity, Insanity, Shows, Treated

Man is not made better by being degraded.

Degraded, Made, Man, Men
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