Best Quotes by Dorothea Dix (Top 6)
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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.
Dorothea Dix
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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
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I think even lying on my bed I can still do something.
Dorothea Dix
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But the truth is the highest consideration.
Dorothea Dix
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The tapestry of history has no point at which you can cut it and leave the design intelligible.
Dorothea Dix
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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 by day to acquire.
Dorothea Dix