Tennessee Claflin

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    Criminality should be exterminated by disabling all notorious and irreclaimable criminals.
    Tennessee Claflin (1846–1923)

    No legislation can suppress nature; all life rushes to reproduction; our procreative faculties are matured early, while passion is strong, and judgment and self-restraint weak. We cannot alter this, but we can alter what is conventional. We can refuse to brand an act of nature as a crime, and to impute to vice what is due to ignorance.
    —Tennessee Claflin (1846–1923)