Brainier

[A] February 1924 birth control conference in Syracuse featured a paper entitled "Birth Control as Viewed by a Sociologist." The speech argued, "We need a eugenic program and by that I mean a program that seeks to improve the quality of our population, to make a stronger, brainier, and better race of men and women. This will require an effort to increase the number of superior and diminish that of the inferior and the weakling....It is quite important that we cut down on the now large numbers of the unfit-the physical, mental and moral sub-normals." This speech was quickly reprinted in the May 1924 issue of Birth Control Review [the publication of Margaret Sanger, founder of Planned Parenthood], with the eugenic remarks highlighted in a special subsection headlined "Eugenics and Birth Control."

--Edwin Black, "War Against The Weak: Eugenics And America's Campaign To Create A Master Race", p. 138