Birth control is nothing more or less than...weeding out the unfit. — Margaret Sanger Copy Share Image
More children from the fit, less from the unfit -- that is the chief aim of birth control. — Margaret Sanger Copy Share Image
No woman can call herself free who cannot choose the time to be a mother or not as she sees fit. — Margaret Sanger Copy Share Image
Many people are horrified at the idea of birth control. . . . It is simply the keynote of a new moral program. — Margaret Sanger Copy Share Image
Knowledge of birth control is essentially moral. Its general, though prudent, practice must lead to a higher individuality and ultimately to a… — Margaret Sanger Copy Share Image
The greatest issue is to raise the question of birth control out of the gutter of obscenity ... into the light of… — Margaret Sanger Copy Share Image
Like the advocates of Birth Control, the eugenists, for instance, are seeking to assist the race toward the elimination of the unfit.… — Margaret Sanger Copy Share Image
Birth control is the first important step woman must take toward the goal of her freedom. It is the first step she… — Margaret Sanger Copy Share Image
The campaign for birth control is not merely of eugenic value, but is practically identical with the final aims of eugenics. — Margaret Sanger Copy Share Image
Birth Control is not contraception indiscriminately and thoughtlessly practiced. It means the release and cultivation of the better racial elements in our… — Margaret Sanger Copy Share Image
Birth control appeals to the advanced radical because it is calculated to undermine the authority of the Christian churches. I look forward… — Margaret Sanger Copy Share Image
I resolved that women should have knowledge of contraception. They have every right to know about their own bodies. I would strikeout--I… — Margaret Sanger Copy Share Image
The most successful educational approach to the Negro is throgh a religious appeal. We do not want word to go out that… — Margaret Sanger Copy Share Image
Birth control itself, often denounced as a violation of natural law, is nothing more or less than the facilitation of the process… — Margaret Sanger Copy Share Image
Birth Control which has been criticized as negative and destructive, is really the greatest and most truly eugenic method, and its adoption… — Margaret Sanger Copy Share Image
Shall we who have heard the cries and seen the agony of dying women respect the law which has caused their deaths?… — Margaret Sanger Copy Share Image
“We do not want word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population, and the minister is the man… — Margaret Sanger Copy Share Image
Has knowledge of birth control, so carefully guarded and so secretly practiced by the women of the wealthy class - and so… — Margaret Sanger Copy Share Image
“Woman must have her freedom, the fundamental freedom of choosing whether or not she will be a mother and how many children… — Margaret Sanger Copy Share Image
As an advocate of birth control I wish to point out that the unbalance between the birth rate of the 'unfit' and… — Margaret Sanger Copy Share Image
Very early in my childhood I associated poverty, toil, unemployment, drunkenness, cruelty, quarreling, fighting, debts, jail with large families. — Margaret Sanger Copy Share
Life has taught me one supreme lesson. This is that we must—if we are really to live at all, if we are to enjoy… — Margaret Sanger Copy Share
Organized charity itself is. . . the surest sign that our civilization has bred, is breeding and is perpetuating constantly increasing numbers of defectives,… — Margaret Sanger Copy Share
Woman must not accept; she must challenge. She must not be awed by that which has been built up around her; she must reverence… — Margaret Sanger Copy Share
A mutual and satisfied sexual act is of great benefit to the average woman, the magnetism of it is health giving. When it is… — Margaret Sanger Copy Share
Eugenic sterilization is an urgent need ... We must prevent multiplication of this bad stock. — Margaret Sanger Copy Share
No more children should be born when the parents, though healthy themselves, find that their children are physically or mentally defective. — Margaret Sanger Copy Share
By all means, there should be no children when either mother or father suffers from such diseases as tuberculosis, gonorrhea, syphilis, cancer, epilepsy, insanity,… — Margaret Sanger Copy Share
The undeniably feeble-minded should, indeed, not only be discouraged but prevented from propagating their kind. — Margaret Sanger Copy Share
Hordes of people [are] born, who live, yet who have done absolutely nothing to advance the race one iota. Their lives are hopeless repetitions…… — Margaret Sanger Copy Share
I think the greatest sin in the world is bringing children into the world that have disease from their parents, that have no chance… — Margaret Sanger Copy Share
When motherhood becomes the fruit of a deep yearning, not the result of ignorance or accident, its children will become the foundation of a… — Margaret Sanger Copy Share
Through sex, mankind may attain the great spiritual illumination which will transform the world, which will light up the only path to earthly paradise. — Margaret Sanger Copy Share
Birth control is the first important step woman must take toward the goal of her freedom. It is the first step she must take… — Margaret Sanger Copy Share
![“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. [Explaining rationale for using prominent black leaders to advocate birth control and abortion]” quote by Margaret Sanger](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/3e6/margaret-sanger-3929_birth-control_we-do-not-want-word-to-go-out-that-we-wa_536365.jpg)
