Margaret Sanger
Margaret Sanger
Margaret Higgins Sangerwas an American birth control activist, sex educator, writer, and nurse. Sanger popularized the term "birth control", opened the first birth control clinic in the United States, and established organizations that evolved into the Planned Parenthood Federation of America...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionCivil Rights Leader
Date of Birth14 September 1879
CityCorning, NY
CountryUnited States of America
years law civilization
While there are cases where even the law recognizes an abortion as justifiable if recommended by a physician, I assert that the hundreds of thousands of abortions performed in America each year are a disgrace to civilization,
couple children should
Couples should be required to submit applications to have a child...
weed eugenics birth-control
Birth control is nothing more or less than...weeding out the unfit.
southern born native
Negroes and Southern Europeans are mentally inferior to native born Americans.
eugenics birth-control campaigns
The campaign for birth control is not merely of eugenic value, but is practically identical with the final aims of eugenics.
eugenics kind discouraged
The undeniably feeble-minded should, indeed, not only be discouraged but prevented from propagating their kind.
unlawful exceed millions
Woman was and is condemned to a system under which the lawful rapes exceed the unlawful ones a million to one.
intelligent population socialism
The masses of Negroes...particularly in the South, still breed carelessly and disasterously, with the result that the increase among Negroes, even more than among whites, is from that portion of the population least intelligent and fit...
inspirational-life design preparation
As I look back upon my life, I see that every part of it was a preparation for the next. The most trivial of incidents fits into the larger pattern like a mosaic in a preconceived design.
ocean motherhood law
... the ocean could not be swept back with a broom. The truth was out. It illuminated the world. Motherhood no longer cringed before the relentless laws of fecundity.
strong-women empowering challenges
Woman must not accept; she must challenge.
eugenics people giving
Give dysgenic groups [people with 'bad genes'] in our population their choice of segregation or [compulsory] sterilization.
eugenics political adequate
Eugenics is the most adequate and thorough avenue to the solution of racial, political and social problems.
spiritual sex illumination
Through sex, mankind may attain the great spiritual illumination which will transform the world, which will light up the only path to earthly paradise.