"... by the early 1880s Francis Galton had coined the term eugenics based on the greek root meaning 'good in birth'."
-Steven Selden, Inheriting Shame (1999)
“Raise the present miserably low standard of the human race by breeding the best with the best.” |
“...I wish again to emphasize the fact that the improvement of the natural gifts of future generations of the human race is largely, though indirectly, under our control...” |
Charles Davenport established the Eugenics Record Office (ERO). It became an iconic symbol of the Eugenics Movement.
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“I believe in such a selection of immigrants as shall not tend to adulterate our national germ plasm with socially unfit traits… I believe in doing it for the race.”
-Charles Davenport (1944)
"Harry H. Laughlin was highly important for the Nazi crusade to breed a "master race." This American positioned himself to have a significant effect on the world's population. |
He became an "Expert Eugenicist Agent"
but used flawed data to show immigrants were “feeble-minded.” |
"The formation of isolated alien centers, which maintain their alien languages and cultures, is a dangerous thing for the American people. . . the Nation must exercise stricter control over immigration."
-Harry Laughlin, “Europe as an Emigrant Exporting Continent and the United States as an Immigrant Receiving Nation” (1924)