The procreation of [the diseased, the feeble-minded and paupers] should be stopped. — Margaret Sanger Copy Share Image
Give dysgenic groups [people with 'bad genes'] in our population their choice of segregation or [compulsory] sterilization. — Margaret Sanger Copy Share Image
Eugenic sterilization is an urgent need ... We must prevent multiplication of this bad stock. — Margaret Sanger Copy Share Image
Eugenics is the most adequate and thorough avenue to the solution of racial, political and social problems. — Margaret Sanger Copy Share Image
On the contrary, the most urgent problem today is how to limit and discourage the over-fertility of the mentally and physically defective. — Margaret Sanger Copy Share Image
There is only one reply to a request for a higher birthrate among the intelligent, and that is to ask the government… — Margaret Sanger Copy Share Image
Eugenics, which had started long before my time, had once been defined as including free love and prevention of conception... Recently it… — 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
Possibly drastic and Spartan methods may be forced upon American society if it continues complacently to encourage the chance and chaotic breeding… — 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… — Margaret Sanger Copy Share Image
It now remains for the United States government to set a sensible example to the world by offering a bonus or a… — Margaret Sanger Copy Share Image
To give certain dysgenic groups in our population their choice of segregation or sterilization. g. to apportion farm lands and homesteads for… — Margaret Sanger Copy Share Image
Apply a stern and rigid policy of sterilization and segregation to that grade of population whose progeny is already tainted, or whose… — Margaret Sanger Copy Share Image
In passing, we should here recognize the difficulties presented by the idea of 'fit' and 'unfit.' Who is to decide this question?… — 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
The emergency problem of segregation and sterilization must be faced immediately. Every feeble-minded girl or woman of the hereditary type, especially of… — Margaret Sanger Copy Share Image
We should not minimize the great outstanding service of Eugenics for critical and diagnostic investigations. It demonstrates ... that uncontrolled fertility is… — 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
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