The tapestry of history has no point at which you can cut it and leave the design intelligible.
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While we diminish the stimulant of fear, we must increase to prisoners the incitements of hope, in proportion as we extinguish the terrors of the law, we should awaken and strengthen the control of the conscience.Dorothea Dix
The reason husbands and wives do not understand each other is because they belong to different sexes
Dorothea Dix
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
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
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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