When Texas Gov. Miriam Ferguson ran for reelection in 1926, one of the achievements she listed of her first term was having “removed the insane from the jails.” Which seems like a given to us but it wasn’t then, and it took people such as her to take moral leadership for the mentally ill. A lesson for us? There are things we as a society are doing now that seem perfectly acceptable and in 100 years, our descendants will be astonished that we tolerate. But even now, there are prophets speaking out. Listen for those prophets. Some of those who sometimes sound like kooks are telling us the truth.