Dorothea Dix Quotes

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

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