"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." ~ H.L. Mencken
North Carolina Urges Sterilization Victims to Come Forward
"Social workers would coerce families to have their children sterilized under threat of losing their land, public assistance, or custody of the children. Neighbors, rivals, and any law abiding citizen had a right and a duty to report 'deviant' behavior to authorities, though most often sterilizations resulted from reports of sexual promiscuity or poverty."
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