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Blogs Liberty and Power Film on Compulsory Eugenics from the 1930s (Oliver Wendell Holmes reference)

Mar 13, 2012

Film on Compulsory Eugenics from the 1930s (Oliver Wendell Holmes reference)

by Liberty and Power

The judge ordering the sterilization paraphrases Oliver Wendell Holmes' infamous line from the majority opinion in Buck v. Bell: "Three generations of imbeciles are enough."