Margaret Sanger

The most serious charge that can be brought against modern benevolence is that it encourages the perpetuation of defectives, delinquents and dependents.…

— Margaret Sanger

No one can doubt that there are times when an abortion is justifiable but they will become unnecessary when care is taken…

— Margaret Sanger

Shall we who have heard the cries and seen the agony of dying women respect the law which has caused their deaths?…

— Margaret Sanger

Like the advocates of Birth Control, the eugenists, for instance, are seeking to assist the race toward the elimination of the unfit.…

— Margaret Sanger

Blacks, soldiers, and Jews are a menace to the race.

— Margaret Sanger

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

The procreation of [the diseased, the feeble-minded and paupers] should be stopped.

— Margaret Sanger

No woman can call herself free who does not own and control her body. No woman can call herself free until she…

— Margaret Sanger

Give dysgenic groups [people with 'bad genes'] in our population their choice of segregation or [compulsory] sterilization.

— Margaret Sanger

I cannot refrain from saying that women must come to recognize there is some function of womanhood other than being a child-bearing…

— Margaret Sanger

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

Many people are horrified at the idea of birth control. . . . It is simply the keynote of a new moral program.

— Margaret Sanger

Negroes and Southern Europeans are mentally inferior to native born Americans.

— Margaret Sanger

Diplomats make it their business to conceal the facts.

— Margaret Sanger

The mother memories that are closest to my heart are the small gentle ones that I have carried over from the days…

— Margaret Sanger

Birth control itself, often denounced as a violation of natural law, is nothing more or less than the facilitation of the process…

— Margaret Sanger

“No woman can call herself free until she can choose consciously whether she will or will not be a mother.”

— Margaret Sanger

“The most merciful thing that a large family does to one of its infant members is to kill it." Margaret Sanger”

— Margaret Sanger

Enthusiasm is a divine possession.

— Margaret Sanger

We should not minimize the great outstanding service of Eugenics for critical and diagnostic investigations. It demonstrates ... that uncontrolled fertility is…

— Margaret Sanger

In passing, we should here recognize the difficulties presented by the idea of 'fit' and 'unfit.' Who is to decide this question?…

— Margaret Sanger

War, famine, poverty and oppression of the workers will continue while woman makes life cheap. They will cease only when she limits…

— Margaret Sanger

In the end, through simple illustrations I believed I had accomplished my purpose. A dozen invitations to speak to similar groups were…

— Margaret Sanger

Women of the working class, especially wage workers, should not have more than two children at most. The average working man can…

— Margaret Sanger

I accepted an invitation to talk to the women's branch of the Ku Klux Klan.

— Margaret Sanger