21st Century: Query 158 (Dorothea Dix)
“Why not,
when it can be done without exposure or expense, let me rescue some of America’s
miserable children from vice and guilt?”
How might we apply this concept to the foreign-born children now being held in modern day concentration camps?
~ Dorothea Dix was an American advocate on behalf of the indigent mentally ill who, through a
vigorous and sustained program of lobbying state legislatures and the United States Congress, created the
first generation of American mental
asylums.
How might we apply this concept to the foreign-born children now being held in modern day concentration camps?