The undeniably feeble-minded should, indeed, not only be discouraged but prevented from propagating their kind. — 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… — Margaret Sanger Copy Share Image
While there are cases where even the law recognizes an abortion as justifiable if recommended by a physician, I assert that the… — 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 third group [of society] are those irresponsible and reckless ones having little regard for the consequences of their acts, or whose… — 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
Eugenics is the most adequate and thorough avenue to the solution of racial, political and social problems. — 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
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
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
I accepted an invitation to talk to the women's branch of the Ku Klux Klan. — Margaret Sanger Copy Share Image
Speaking of Margaret Sanger, Grandson Alexander Sanger, head of Planned Parenthood of New York City, said: She made people accept that women… — 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
More children from the fit, less from the unfit -- that is the chief aim of birth control. — 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
No woman shall have the legal right to bear a child without a permit for parenthood. — 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
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
Birth control is nothing more or less than...weeding out the unfit. — 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
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