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Dorothea Dix Quotes

Man is not made better by being degraded.

Dorothea Lynde Dix (1845). “Remarks on Prisons and Prison Discipline in the United States”, p.25

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.

Dorothea Lynde Dix (1843). “Memorial: To the Legislature of Massachusetts [protesting Against the Confinement of Insane Persons and Idiots in Almshouses and Prisons]”, p.4

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 Lynde Dix (1845). “Remarks on Prisons and Prison Discipline in the United States”, p.11