No woman shall have the legal right to bear a child…

The most successful educational approach to the Negro is throgh a religious appeal. We do not want word to go out that we want…

— Margaret Sanger

Give dysgenic groups [people with 'bad genes'] in our population their choice of segregation or [compulsory] sterilization.

— Margaret Sanger

Apply a stern and rigid policy of sterilization and segregation to that grade of population whose progeny is already tainted, or whose inheritance is…

— Margaret Sanger

Eugenics, which had started long before my time, had once been defined as including free love and prevention of conception... Recently it had cropped…

— Margaret Sanger

Our failure to segregate morons who are increasing and multiplying . . . demonstrates our foolhardy and extravagant sentimentalism,

— Margaret Sanger

I accepted an invitation to talk to the women's branch of the Ku Klux Klan.

— Margaret Sanger

We should not minimize the great outstanding service of Eugenics for critical and diagnostic investigations. It demonstrates ... that uncontrolled fertility is universally correlated…

— Margaret Sanger

Birth control itself, often denounced as a violation of natural law, is nothing more or less than the facilitation of the process of weeding…

— Margaret Sanger

No one can doubt that there are times when an abortion is justifiable but they will become unnecessary when care is taken to prevent…

— Margaret Sanger

Eugenics is the most adequate and thorough avenue to the solution of racial, political and social problems.

— Margaret Sanger

Every single case of inherited defect, every malformed child, every congenitally tainted human being brought into this world is of infinite importance to that…

— Margaret Sanger

As an advocate of birth control I wish to point out that the unbalance between the birth rate of the 'unfit' and the 'fit,'…

— Margaret Sanger

While there are cases where even the law recognizes an abortion as justifiable if recommended by a physician, I assert that the hundreds of…

— Margaret Sanger

The undeniably feeble-minded should, indeed, not only be discouraged but prevented from propagating their kind.

— Margaret Sanger

Organized charity itself is. . . the surest sign that our civilization has bred, is breeding and is perpetuating constantly increasing numbers of defectives,…

— Margaret Sanger