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
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
“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
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
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 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
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
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
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
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
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 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
More children from the fit, less from the unfit -- that is the chief aim of birth control. — 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
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 nothing more or less than...weeding out the unfit. — 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
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
Very early in my childhood I associated poverty, toil, unemployment, drunkenness, cruelty, quarreling, fighting, debts, jail with large families. — Margaret Sanger Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
Eugenic sterilization is an urgent need ... We must prevent multiplication of this bad stock. — Margaret Sanger Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
The undeniably feeble-minded should, indeed, not only be discouraged but prevented from propagating their kind. — Margaret Sanger Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image