“The mass of Negroes, particularly in the South, still breed carelessly and disastrously, with the result that the increase among Negroes, even more than among Whites, is from that portion of the population least intelligent and fit.”
“We
propose to hire three or four colored ministers, preferably with social-service
backgrounds, and with engaging personalities. The most successful educational
approach to the Negro is through a religious appeal. And we do not want word to
go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population, and the minister is
the man who can straighten out that idea if it ever occurs to any of their more
rebellious members.”
“The most merciful thing a large family can do to one of its
infant members is to kill it.”
“The government of the United States deliberately encourages
and even makes necessary by its laws the breeding--with a breakneck
rapidity--of idiots, defectives, diseased, feebleminded, and criminal
classes. Billions of dollars are
expended by our state and federal governments and by private charities and
philanthropies for the care, the maintenance, and the perpetuation of these
classes. Year by year their numbers
are mounting. Year by year more
money is expended . . . to maintain an increasing race of morons which
threatens the very foundations of our civilization.”
“We can all vote, even the mentally arrested. And so it is no surprise to find that
the moron’s vote is as good as the vote of the genius. The outlook is not a cheerful one.”
“The dullard, the gawk, the numbskull, the simpleton, the
weakling, and the scatterbrain are amongst us in overshadowing
numbers--intermarrying, breeding, inordinately prolific, literally threatening
to overwhelm the world with their useless and terrifying get.”
“Birth control appeals to the advanced radical because it is
calculated to undermine the authority of the Christian churches. I look forward to seeing humanity free
someday of the tyranny of Christianity no less than Capitalism.”
“Even if we accept organized charity at its own valuation,
and grant it does the best it can, it is exposed to a more profound
criticism. It reveals a
fundamental and irremedial defect.
Its very success, its very efficiency, its very necessity to the social
order are the most unanswerable indictment. Organized charity is the symptom of a malignant social
disease. Those vast, complex,
interrelated organizations aiming to control and to diminish the spread of
misery and destitution and all the menacing evils that spring out of this
sinisterly fertile soil, are the surest sign that our civilization has bred, is
breeding, and is perpetuating constantly increasing numbers of defectives, delinquents,
and dependents. My criticism,
therefore is not directed at the failure of philanthropy, but rather at its
success. These dangers inherent in
the very idea of humanitarianism and altruism, dangers which have today
produced their full harvest of human waste.”
“The most serious charge that can be brought against modern
benevolence is that it encourages the perpetuation of defectives, delinquents,
and dependents. These are the most
dangerous elements in the world community, the most devestating curse on human
progress and expression.
Philanthropy is a gesture characteristic of modern business lavishing
upon the unfit the profits extorted from the community at large. Looked at impartially, this
compensatory generosity is in its final effect probably more dangerous, more
dysgenic, more blighting than the initial practice of profiteering.”
