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Dorothea Dix
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“I have come to present to you the strong claims of suffering humanity. I come as the advocate of the helpless, forgotten, insane men and women held in cages, closets, cellars, stalls, pens; chained, naked, beaten with rods and lashed into obedience.”
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“... 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.”
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“[To a woman who claimed she'd rather be dead than unconfined and unfashionable:] My dear, if you continue to lace as tightly as you do now, you will not long have the privilege of choice. You will be both dead and out of fashion.”
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“Be of good cheer, for sadness cannot heal the national wounds.”
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“Every evil has its good, and every ill an antidote.”
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“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.”
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“What greater bliss than to look back on days spent in usefulness, in doing good to those around us.”
Dorothea Dix, U.S. nurse, social reformer, mental health crusader
(1802 - 1887)
Full name: Dorothea Lynde Dix.