"Shall we who have heard the cries and……" — Margaret Sanger
"Shall we who have heard the cries and seen the agony of dying women respect the law which has caused their deaths? Shall we watch in patience the murdering of 25,000 women each year in the Untied States from criminal abortions? Shall we fold our hands and wait until a body of sleek and well-fed politicians get ready to abolish the cause of such slaughter?"
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Margaret Sanger
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77 Quotes by Margaret Sanger
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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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Relegating women to second-class citizenship was abolished when Jesus died on the cross.
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All the legislation in the world will not abolish kissing.
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If there be a principle that ought not to be questioned within the United States, it is that every man…
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When we abolish the slavery of half of humanity, together with the whole system of hypocrisy it implies, then the…
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Either man will abolish war, or war will abolish man.
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If men do not now succeed in abolishing war, civilization and mankind are doomed.
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