Margaret Sanger

More children from the fit, less from the unfit -- that is the chief aim of birth control.

— Margaret Sanger

The marriage bed is the most degenerative influence in the social order,

— Margaret Sanger

Women must have economic and social equality with men.

— Margaret Sanger

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

— Margaret Sanger

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

— Margaret Sanger

The most merciful thing a large family can do to one of its infant members is to kill it.

— Margaret Sanger

Diplomats make it their business to conceal the facts.

— Margaret Sanger

If we are really to live at all we must put our convictions into action.

— 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

No more children should be born when the parents, though healthy themselves, find that their children are physically or mentally defective.

— Margaret Sanger

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

— 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 real hope of the world lies in putting as painstaking thought into the business of mating as we do into other…

— Margaret Sanger

Against the State, against the Church, against the silence of the medical profession, against the whole machinery of dead institutions of the…

— Margaret Sanger

Knowledge of birth control is essentially moral. Its general, though prudent, practice must lead to a higher individuality and ultimately to a…

— Margaret Sanger

Woman was and is condemned to a system under which the lawful rapes exceed the unlawful ones a million to one.

— Margaret Sanger

I think the greatest sin in the world is bringing children into the world that have disease from their parents, that have…

— Margaret Sanger

I resolved that women should have knowledge of contraception. They have every right to know about their own bodies. I would strikeout--I…

— 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

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

— Margaret Sanger

Birth control appeals to the advanced radical because it is calculated to undermine the authority of the Christian churches. I look forward…

— Margaret Sanger

Woman must have her freedom, the fundamental freedom of choosing whether or not she will be a mother and how many children…

— Margaret Sanger

Every single case of inherited defect, every malformed child, every congenitally tainted human being brought into this world is of infinite importance…

— 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

By all means, there should be no children when either mother or father suffers from such diseases as tuberculosis, gonorrhea, syphilis, cancer,…

— Margaret Sanger

No woman can call herself free who does not control her own body.

— Margaret Sanger

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

— Margaret Sanger

The most merciful thing that a family does to one of its infant members is to kill it.

— Margaret Sanger

She made people accept that women had the right to control their own destinies.

— 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

The most far-reaching social development of modern times is the revolt of woman against sex servitude. The most important force in the…

— Margaret Sanger

Woman must not accept; she must challenge. She must not be awed by that which has been built up around her; she…

— Margaret Sanger

... it has always been the depth of my belief, my faith, or my love that was the mainspring of my behavior.…

— Margaret Sanger

Our failure to segregate morons who are increasing and multiplying . . . demonstrates our foolhardy and extravagant sentimentalism,

— Margaret Sanger

Very early in my childhood I associated poverty, toil, unemployment, drunkenness, cruelty, quarreling, fighting, debts, jail with large families.

— Margaret Sanger

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

— Margaret Sanger

Eugenic sterilization is an urgent need ... We must prevent multiplication of this bad stock.

— Margaret Sanger

No woman can call herself free who cannot choose the time to be a mother or not as she sees fit.

— Margaret Sanger

Eugenics is the most adequate and thorough avenue to the solution of racial, political and social problems.

— Margaret Sanger

The campaign for birth control is not merely of eugenic value, but is practically identical with the final aims of eugenics.

— Margaret Sanger