'Only fit blacks should procreate to eradicate the race's heritage of moral iniquity.' NAACP co-founder and civil rights activist
'The Origin of the Species made [an] epoch in my mental development. Its effect was to arouse rebellion against unauthenticated statements contradicted by modern science.' Coiner of 'eugenics' and 'nature versus nurture,' pioneer of fingerprint classification
'Before the race reaches the state of universal incompetency, the impending danger will be appreciated, the cause sought for and eliminated, and, through eugenics and euthenics.' Inventor of corn flakes cereal and founder of the Race Betterment Foundation in Battle Creek, Michigan
'Eugenics without birth control seems to us a house builded upon the sands. Only upon a free, self-determining motherhood can rest any unshakable structure of racial betterment.' Social activist who opened the first American birth control clinic, the forerunner of Planned Parenthood
'There can't be two smart peoples in the world. We're going to win the war, so only the Aryan race will stand.' German SS officer and physician at Auschwitz
'[Eugenics is] the most important, significant and, I would add, genuine branch of sociology which exists.' Influential economist and director of the Bank of England and the British Eugenics Society
'[The lowest strata] must not have too easy access to relief or hospital treatment lest [that] should make it too easy for children to be produced or to survive.' British biologist, first director of UNESCO, and brother of -Brave New World- author
'Our puny sentimentalism has caused us to forget that a human life is sacred only when it may be of some use to itself and to the world.' ACLU co-founder, defending the physician in the true story that inspired -The Black Stork-
'Chloroform unfit children. Show them the same mercy that is shown beasts that are no longer fit to live.' Attorney who famously debated William Jennings Bryan in the Scopes 'Monkey' Trial
'We need... to make every citizen conscious that if his life costs more than it is worth to the community, the community may painlessly extinguish it.' -Pygmalion- playwright in the preface to his play -The Simpleton of the Unexpected Isles-
'The prime duty of the good citizen of the right type is to leave his blood behind him in the world. We have no business to permit the perpetuation of citizens of the wrong type.' Conservation-conscious 26th U.S.president
'I am convinced that the multiplication of the Feeble-Minded, unchecked by the old restraints of nature and fostered by civilised conditions, is a terrible danger to the race.' WWII-era British prime minister
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