Like The Advocates Of Birth Control, The

A Free Race Cannot Be Born Of Slave Mothers.

Some Lives Drift Here And There Like Reeds In A Stream, Depending On Changing Currents For Their Activity. Others Are Like Swimmers Knowing The Depth Of The Water. Each Stroke Helps Them Onward To A Definite Objective.

The Real Hope Of The World Lies In Putting As Painstaking Thought Into The Business Of Mating As We Do Into Other Big Businesses.

It Now Remains For The United States Government To Set A Sensible Example To The World By Offering A Bonus Or A Yearly Pension To All Obviously Unfit Parents Who Allow Themselves To Be Sterilized By Harmless And Scientific Means.

In Passing, We Should Here Recognize The Difficulties Presented By The Idea Of 'fit' And 'unfit.' Who Is To Decide This Question? The Grosser, The More Obvious, The Undeniably Feeble-minded Should, Indeed, Not Only Be Discouraged But Prevented From Propagating Their Kind. But Among The Writings Of The Representative Eugenists [sic], One Cannot Ignore The Distinct Middle-class Bias That Prevails.