Why not, when it can be done without exposure or expense, let me rescue some of America's miserable children from vice and guilt?
Interpretation
The quote emphasizes the importance of helping those in need without incurring personal costs.
Dorothea Dix's quote reflects her compassionate call to action for the betterment of society, specifically in rescuing vulnerable children from the grips of vice and guilt. It advocates for altruism and social responsibility, suggesting that there are ways to enact positive change without significant personal risk or financial expense, encouraging others to join in the effort to uplift the marginalized.
In practice
Using this quote in a speech to advocate for children's rights and welfare.
Steady, firm, and kind government of prisoners is the truest humanity and the best exercise of duty. It is with convicts as with children: unseasonable indulgence, indiscreetly granted, leads to mischiefs which we may deplore but cannot repair.
I was early taught by sorrow to shed tears, and now when sudden joy lights up, or any unexpected sorrow strikes my heart, I find it difficult to repress the full and swelling tide of feeling.
I shall be well enough when I get to Kentucky or Alabama. The tonic I need is the tonic of opposition. That always sets me on my feet.
Time passed solely in the pursuit of pleasure leaves no solid enjoyment for the future; but from the hours you spend in reading and studying useful books, you will gather a golden harvest in future years.
With care and patience, people may accomplish things which, to an indolent person, would appear impossible.
My wish is to be known only thru my work.
All the world is made of faith, and trust, and pixie dust.
Pacifism, the preaching of peace in the abstract, is one of the means of duping the working class.
The first problem of the media is posed by what does not get translated, or even published in the dominant political languages.
Boredom is just the reverse side of fascination.
At the heart of every being lies creation's dream of a principle that will one day give organic form to its fragmented treasures. God is unity.
Why is it immoral for you to desire, but moral for others to do so? Why is it immoral to produce a value and keep it, but moral to give it away? And if it is not moral for you to keep a value, why is it moral for others to accept it? If you are selfless and virtuous when you give it, are they not selfish and vicious when they take it?
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