T Quotes

“The eugenics movement in the United States is just one example: In 1931 twenty-nine states had laws that permitted forcible sterilization of those deemed genetically unfit. Former Harvard president Charles William Eliot pronounced eugenics laws essential to protect states from “moral degeneracy.” Before the eugenics laws were abolished, close to seventy thousand people had been sterilized.”
― Carole Hooven, Testosterone: The Story of the Hormone that Dominates and Divides Us