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title: "17 Breeding Quotes By Margaret Sanger"
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> [Eugenics is the most adequate and thorough avenue to the solution of racial, political and social problems.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/margaret-sanger/eugenics-is-the-most-adequate-and-thorough-avenue-to-the-solution-of/)

[Margaret Sanger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/margaret-sanger/)

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> [Eugenic sterilization is an urgent need ... We must prevent multiplication of this bad stock.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/margaret-sanger/eugenic-sterilization-is-an-urgent-need-we-must-prevent/)

[Margaret Sanger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/margaret-sanger/)

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> [On the contrary, the most urgent problem today is how to limit and discourage the over-fertility of the mentally and physically defective.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/margaret-sanger/on-the-contrary-the-most-urgent-problem-today-is-how-to-limit-and/)

[Margaret Sanger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/margaret-sanger/)

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> [ The procreation of \[the diseased, the feeble-minded and paupers\] should be stopped. ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/margaret-sanger/the-procreation-of-the-diseased-the-feeble-minded-and-paupers-should/)

[Margaret Sanger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/margaret-sanger/)

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> [ Give dysgenic groups \[people with 'bad genes'\] in our population their choice of segregation or \[compulsory\] sterilization. ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/margaret-sanger/give-dysgenic-groups-people-with-bad-genes-in-our-population-their/)

[Margaret Sanger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/margaret-sanger/)

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> [It now remains for the United States government to set a sensible example to the world by offering a bonus or a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/margaret-sanger/it-now-remains-for-the-united-states-government-to-set-a-sensible/)

[Margaret Sanger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/margaret-sanger/)

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> [Organized charity itself is. . . the surest sign that our civilization has bred, is breeding and is perpetuating constantly increasing numbers…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/margaret-sanger/organized-charity-itself-is-the-surest-sign-that-our-civilization-has/)

[Margaret Sanger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/margaret-sanger/)

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> [We should not minimize the great outstanding service of Eugenics for critical and diagnostic investigations. It demonstrates ... that uncontrolled fertility is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/margaret-sanger/we-should-not-minimize-the-great-outstanding-service-of-eugenics-for/)

[Margaret Sanger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/margaret-sanger/)

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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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/margaret-sanger/apply-a-stern-and-rigid-policy-of-sterilization-and-segregation-to/)

[Margaret Sanger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/margaret-sanger/)

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> [To give certain dysgenic groups in our population their choice of segregation or sterilization. g. to apportion farm lands and homesteads for…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/margaret-sanger/to-give-certain-dysgenic-groups-in-our-population-their-choice-of/)

[Margaret Sanger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/margaret-sanger/)

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> [Like the advocates of Birth Control, the eugenists, for instance, are seeking to assist the race toward the elimination of the unfit.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/margaret-sanger/like-the-advocates-of-birth-control-the-eugenists-for-instance-are/)

[Margaret Sanger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/margaret-sanger/)

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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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/margaret-sanger/eugenics-which-had-started-long-before-my-time-had-once-been-defined/)

[Margaret Sanger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/margaret-sanger/)

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> [There is only one reply to a request for a higher birthrate among the intelligent, and that is to ask the government…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/margaret-sanger/there-is-only-one-reply-to-a-request-for-a-higher-birthrate-among-the/)

[Margaret Sanger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/margaret-sanger/)

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> [The emergency problem of segregation and sterilization must be faced immediately. Every feeble-minded girl or woman of the hereditary type, especially of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/margaret-sanger/the-emergency-problem-of-segregation-and-sterilization-must-be-faced/)

[Margaret Sanger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/margaret-sanger/)

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> [As an advocate of birth control I wish to point out that the unbalance between the birth rate of the 'unfit' and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/margaret-sanger/as-an-advocate-of-birth-control-i-wish-to-point-out-that-the/)

[Margaret Sanger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/margaret-sanger/)

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> [In passing, we should here recognize the difficulties presented by the idea of 'fit' and 'unfit.' Who is to decide this question?…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/margaret-sanger/in-passing-we-should-here-recognize-the-difficulties-presented-by-the/)

[Margaret Sanger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/margaret-sanger/)

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> [Possibly drastic and Spartan methods may be forced upon American society if it continues complacently to encourage the chance and chaotic breeding…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/margaret-sanger/possibly-drastic-and-spartan-methods-may-be-forced-upon-american/)

[Margaret Sanger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/margaret-sanger/)

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## Other authors on Breeding

## More by Margaret Sanger

> [Very early in my childhood I associated poverty, toil, unemployment, drunkenness, cruelty, quarreling, fighting, debts, jail with large families.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/margaret-sanger/very-early-in-my-childhood-i-associated-poverty-toil-unemployment/)

[Margaret Sanger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/margaret-sanger/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/margaret-sanger/life-has-taught-me-one-supreme-lesson-this-is-that-we-must-if-we-are/)

[Margaret Sanger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/margaret-sanger/)

> [Organized charity itself is. . . the surest sign that our civilization has bred, is breeding and is perpetuating constantly increasing numbers of defectives,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/margaret-sanger/organized-charity-itself-is-the-surest-sign-that-our-civilization-has/)

[Margaret Sanger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/margaret-sanger/)

> [Woman must not accept; she must challenge. She must not be awed by that which has been built up around her; she must reverence…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/margaret-sanger/woman-must-not-accept-she-must-challenge-she-must-not-be-awed-by-that/)

[Margaret Sanger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/margaret-sanger/)

> [A mutual and satisfied sexual act is of great benefit to the average woman, the magnetism of it is health giving. When it is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/margaret-sanger/a-mutual-and-satisfied-sexual-act-is-of-great-benefit-to-the-average/)

[Margaret Sanger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/margaret-sanger/)

> [Eugenic sterilization is an urgent need ... We must prevent multiplication of this bad stock.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/margaret-sanger/eugenic-sterilization-is-an-urgent-need-we-must-prevent/)

[Margaret Sanger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/margaret-sanger/)

> [No more children should be born when the parents, though healthy themselves, find that their children are physically or mentally defective.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/margaret-sanger/no-more-children-should-be-born-when-the-parents-though-healthy/)

[Margaret Sanger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/margaret-sanger/)

> [By all means, there should be no children when either mother or father suffers from such diseases as tuberculosis, gonorrhea, syphilis, cancer, epilepsy, insanity,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/margaret-sanger/by-all-means-there-should-be-no-children-when-either-mother-or-father/)

[Margaret Sanger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/margaret-sanger/)

> [The undeniably feeble-minded should, indeed, not only be discouraged but prevented from propagating their kind.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/margaret-sanger/the-undeniably-feeble-minded-should-indeed-not-only-be-discouraged/)

[Margaret Sanger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/margaret-sanger/)

> [ Hordes of people \[are\] born, who live, yet who have done absolutely nothing to advance the race one iota. Their lives are hopeless repetitions…… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/margaret-sanger/hordes-of-people-are-born-who-live-yet-who-have-done-absolutely/)

[Margaret Sanger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/margaret-sanger/)

> [“No gods, no masters. ”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/margaret-sanger/no-gods-no-masters/)

[Margaret Sanger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/margaret-sanger/)

> [I think the greatest sin in the world is bringing children into the world that have disease from their parents, that have no chance…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/margaret-sanger/i-think-the-greatest-sin-in-the-world-is-bringing-children-into-the/)

[Margaret Sanger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/margaret-sanger/)

> [When motherhood becomes the fruit of a deep yearning, not the result of ignorance or accident, its children will become the foundation of a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/margaret-sanger/when-motherhood-becomes-the-fruit-of-a-deep-yearning-not-the-result/)

[Margaret Sanger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/margaret-sanger/)

> [Through sex, mankind may attain the great spiritual illumination which will transform the world, which will light up the only path to earthly paradise.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/margaret-sanger/through-sex-mankind-may-attain-the-great-spiritual-illumination-which/)

[Margaret Sanger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/margaret-sanger/)

> [Birth control is the first important step woman must take toward the goal of her freedom. It is the first step she must take…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/margaret-sanger/birth-control-is-the-first-important-step-woman-must-take-toward-the/)

[Margaret Sanger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/margaret-sanger/)

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