Good care is taken that each state shall have its prisons... and other asylums; but not one building is erected nor one law enforced that would teach the people how not to contribute to these over-crowded receptacles of human misery.... All of our politicians are ready to deal with the effects, but not one of them is brave enough to penetrate the substratum of society and deal with the cause.

Lady Eugenist: Feminist Eugenics in the Speeches And Writings of Victoria Woodhull (ed. 2005) - ISBN: 9781587420405