"On the contrary, the most urgent problem today……" — Margaret Sanger
"On the contrary, the most urgent problem today is how to limit and discourage the over-fertility of the mentally and physically defective."
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Margaret Sanger
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77 Quotes by Margaret Sanger
Margaret Sanger has 77 quotes on this site.
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As I look back upon my life, I see that every part of it was a preparation for the next.…
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We should not minimize the great outstanding service of Eugenics for critical and diagnostic investigations. It demonstrates ... that uncontrolled…
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We are paying for and even submitting to the dictates of an ever increasing, unceasingly spawning class of human beings…
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Every single case of inherited defect, every malformed child, every congenitally tainted human being brought into this world is of…
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More children from the fit, less from the unfit -- that is the chief aim of birth control.
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The marriage bed is the most degenerative influence in the social order,
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I cannot refrain from saying that women must come to recognize there is some function of womanhood other than being…
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Blacks, soldiers, and Jews are a menace to the race.
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Birth control must lead ultimately to a cleaner race.
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Like the advocates of Birth Control, the eugenists, for instance, are seeking to assist the race toward the elimination of…
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Life has taught me one supreme lesson. This is that we must—if we are really to live at all, if…
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Eugenic sterilization is an urgent need ... We must prevent multiplication of this bad stock.
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