Oliver Wendall Holmes wasn't your ordinary racist. The statist Supreme Court judge really believed he was genetically superior to those who weren't white. He has little compassion for handicapped people:
Holmes later confided to Harold Laski that “inPeople who think like this generally believe that "taxation is the price we pay for civilization."
upholding the constitutionality of a state law upholding for sterilizing imbeciles . . . [I] felt I was getting near to the first principle of real reform”
