Hordes of people [are] born, who live, yet who have done absolutely nothing to advance the race one iota. Their lives are… — Margaret Sanger Copy Share Image
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
Knowledge of birth control is essentially moral. Its general, though prudent, practice must lead to a higher individuality and ultimately to a… — 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
Slavs, Latin, and Hebrew immigrants are human weeds ... a deadweight of human waste. Blacks, soldiers, and Jews are a menace to… — Margaret Sanger Copy Share Image
Birth Control is not contraception indiscriminately and thoughtlessly practiced. It means the release and cultivation of the better racial elements in our… — 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