The Ugly Laws Quotes

“Taking a hard-line stand against fraud and pauperism proved city officials’ own masculinity. If they wavered, one COS leader warned, the United States would join “all nations which have prematurely passed away” because of weakness toward “parasites,” “buried in graves dug by their own effeminacy” (C.R. Lowell, 138).”
― Susan M. Schweik, The Ugly Laws: Disability in Public