Opinion Quote by Bertrand Russell

The emergency problem of segregation and sterilization must be faced immediately. Every feeble-minded girl or woman of the hereditary type, especially of the moron…

— Margaret Sanger

The sterilization of men is one method of birth control. The surest, most radical method. To you it seems dreadful. To me it seems…

— Indira Gandhi

It now remains for the United States government to set a sensible example to the world by offering a bonus or a yearly pension…

— Margaret Sanger

It would be wisest not to worry too much about the sterile periods. They ventilate the subject and instill into it the reality of…

— Andre Gide

Adding a sterilant to drinking water or staple foods is a suggestion that seems to horrify people, most - than most proposals for involuntarily…

— John Holdren

“Altogether at least sixty thousand people were sterilized because of Laughlin’s efforts. At the peak of the movement in the 1930s, some thirty states…

— Bill Bryson

As an advocate of birth control I wish to point out that the unbalance between the birth rate of the 'unfit' and the 'fit,'…

— Margaret Sanger

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

— Margaret Sanger

There is only one reply to a request for a higher birthrate among the intelligent, and that is to ask the government to first…

— Margaret Sanger

A program of sterilizing women after their second or third child, despite the relatively greater difficulty of the operation than vasectomy, might be easier…

— John Holdren

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

“Of course, the methods for human population control are enormously controversial. One contraceptive measure seems to be humane and acceptable: If you teach calculus…

— Kenneth S. Deffeyes