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
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The ministers work is also important and he should be trained, perhaps by the Federation as to our ideals and the goal that we hope to reach. We do not want word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population, and the minister is the man who can straighten out that idea if it ever occurs to any of their more rebellious members
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It is apparent that nothing short of contraceptives can put an end to the horrors of abortion and infanticide.
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A free race cannot be born to slave mothers. A woman cannot choose but give a measure of that bondage to her sons and daughters.
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Diplomats make it their business to conceal the facts.
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Slavs, Latin, and Hebrew immigrants are human weeds ... a deadweight of human waste. Blacks, soldiers, and Jews are a menace to the race.
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Colored people are like human weeds and are to be exterminated.
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I accepted an invitation to talk to the women's branch of the Ku Klux Klan.
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Couples should be required to submit applications to have a child...
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Birth control is nothing more or less than...weeding out the unfit.
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Negroes and Southern Europeans are mentally inferior to native born Americans.
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Woman was and is condemned to a system under which the lawful rapes exceed the unlawful ones a million to one.
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Eugenics is the most adequate and thorough avenue to the solution of racial, political and social problems.
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Apply a stern and rigid policy of sterilization and segregation to that grade of population whose progeny is already tainted, or whose inheritance is such that objectionable traits may be transmitted to offspring.
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Eugenics, which had started long before my time, had once been defined as including free love and prevention of conception... Recently it had cropped up again in the form of selective breeding.