... it has always been the depth of my belief, my faith, or my love that was the mainspring of my behavior.… — Margaret Sanger Copy Share Image
The first right of every child is to be wanted, to be desired, to be planned for with an intensity of love… — Margaret Sanger Copy Share Image
The submission of her body without love or desire is degrading to the woman's finer sensibility, all the marriage certificates on earth… — Margaret Sanger Copy Share Image
The procreation of [the diseased, the feeble-minded and paupers] should be stopped. — Margaret Sanger Copy Share Image
Our failure to segregate morons who are increasing and multiplying . . . demonstrates our foolhardy and extravagant sentimentalism, — 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
Never be ashamed of passion. If you are strongly sexed, you are richly endowed. — Margaret Sanger Copy Share Image
If we are really to live at all we must put our convictions into action. — 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