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?” ~ 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?