Rise of the State - Quote by Norman Thomas, U.S. Socialist Presidential candidate.

Warning:

"The American people will never knowingly adopt Socialism.  But under the name of "liberalism" they will adopt every fragment of the Socialist program, until one day America will be a Socialist nation, without knowing how it happened."

 

-- Norman Mattoon Thomas

 

 (b. November 20, 1884 — d. December 19, 1968) He was a leading American socialist, pacifist, and six-time presidential candidate for the Socialist Party of America.

Thomas was an early proponent of birth control.  The eugenicist Margaret Sanger recruited him to write "Some Objections to Birth Control Considered" in Religious and Ethical Aspects of Birth Control, edited and published by Sanger in 1926. ^[17]

Thomas also deplored the secular objection to birth control because it originated from "racial and national" group-think.  "The white race, we are told, our own nation — whatever that nation may be — is endangered by practicing birth control.  Birth control is something like disarmament — a good thing if effected by international agreement, but otherwise dangerous to us in both a military and economic sense.  If we are not to be overwhelmed by the 'rising tide of color' we must breed against the world.  If our nation is to survive, it must have more cannon and more babies as prospective food for the cannon." ^[18]

^{source, Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Thomas#cite_ref-16}

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