When motherhood becomes the fruit of a deep yearning, not the result of ignorance or accident, its children will become the foundation… — 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
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
Give dysgenic groups [people with 'bad genes'] in our population their choice of segregation or [compulsory] sterilization. — Margaret Sanger Copy Share Image
The masses of Negroes...particularly in the South, still breed carelessly and disasterously, with the result that the increase among Negroes, even more… — 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
Our failure to segregate morons who are increasing and multiplying . . . demonstrates our foolhardy and extravagant sentimentalism, — 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
No despot ever flung forth his legions to die in foreign conquest, no privilege-ruled nation ever erupted across its borders, to lock… — 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