Margaret Sanger Quotations | Page 2

No woman shall have the legal right to bear a child without a permit for parenthood.

While there are cases where even the law recognizes an abortion as justifiable if recommended by a physician, I assert that the hundreds of thousands of abortions performed in America each year are a disgrace to civilization,

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

A free race cannot be born of slave mothers.

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

Colored people are like human weeds and are to be exterminated.

She goes through the vale of death alone, each time a babe is born. As it is the right neither of man nor the state to coerce her into this ordeal, so it is her right to decide whether she will endure it.

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

Against the State, against the Church, against the silence of the medical profession, against the whole machinery of dead institutions of the past, the woman of today arises.

Woman must not accept; she must challenge. She must not be awed by that which has been built up around her; she must reverence that woman in her which struggles for expression.