Reproduce

"I agree with you...that society has no business to permit degenerates to reproduce their kind....Some day, we will realize that the prime duty, the inescapable duty, of the good citizen of the right type, is to leave his or her blood behind him in the world; and that we have no business to permit the perpetuation of citizens of the wrong type."

--January 3, 1913, letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Charles Davenport (Founder of the Eugenics Records Office, and author of the 1911 college textbook, "Heredity In Relation To Eugenics")

Quoted in Edwin Black, "War Against The Weak: Eugenics And America's Campaign To Create A Master Race", p. 99