Margaret Sanger Birth Quotations

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

On the contrary, the most urgent problem today is how to limit and discourage the over-fertility of the mentally and physically defective.

birth control is the means by which woman attains basic freedom ...

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

Birth control is nothing more or less than...weeding out the unfit.

Birth control must lead ultimately to a cleaner race.

No woman can call herself free who does not own and control her body. No woman can call herself free until she can choose consciously whether she will or will not be a mother.

Has knowledge of birth control, so carefully guarded and so secretly practiced by the women of the wealthy class - and so tenaciously withheld from the working women - brought them misery? Rather, has it not promoted greater happiness, greater freedom, greater prosperity and more harmony among them? The women who have this knowledge are the women who have been free to develop, free to enjoy in its best sense, and free to advance the interests of the community.

Like the advocates of Birth Control, the eugenists, for instance, are seeking to assist the race toward the elimination of the unfit. Both are seeking a single end but they lay emphasis upon different methods.

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

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