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Benjamin Spock

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What is the use of physicians like myself trying to help parents to bring up children healthy and happy, to have them killed in such numbers for a cause that is ignoble?


— Benjamin Spock


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When women are encouraged to be competitive, too many of them become disagreeable.


— Benjamin Spock


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I was proud of the youths who opposed the war in Vietnam because they were my babies.


— Benjamin Spock


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I'm not a pacifist. I was very much for the war against Hitler and I also supported the intervention in Korea, but in this war we went in there to steal Vietnam.


— Benjamin Spock


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To win in Vietnam, we will have to exterminate a nation.


— Benjamin Spock


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You know more than you think you do.


— Benjamin Spock


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In our country today, very few children are raised to believe that their principal destiny is to serve their family, their country, or God.


— Benjamin Spock


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She sued the jail and the mayor of DC for sex discrimination. She was born in Manchester Connecticut and attended Bryn Mawr College. The negative perceptions continued into the 21st Century.

At the time his books were criticized by Vietnam War supporters for allegedly propagating permissiveness and an expectation of instant gratifications that led young people to join these movements a charge Spock denied. In addition to his pediatric work Spock was an activist in the New Left and anti Vietnam War movements during the 1960s and early 1970s. Benjamin McLane Spock (May 2 1903 – March 15 1998) was an American pediatrician whose book Baby and Child Care publiBenjamin Spockd in 1946 is one of the biggest best-sellers of all time.

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