Margaret Sanger
Margaret Sanger
Margaret Higgins Sangerwas an American birth control activist, sex educator, writer, and nurse. Sanger popularized the term "birth control", opened the first birth control clinic in the United States, and established organizations that evolved into the Planned Parenthood Federation of America...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionCivil Rights Leader
Date of Birth14 September 1879
CityCorning, NY
CountryUnited States of America
intelligent population socialism
The masses of Negroes...particularly in the South, still breed carelessly and disasterously, with the result that the increase among Negroes, even more than among whites, is from that portion of the population least intelligent and fit...
death science population
No despot ever flung forth his legions to die in foreign conquest, no privilege-ruled nation ever erupted across its borders, to lock in death embrace with another, but behind them loomed the driving power of a population too large for its boundaries and its natural resources.
eugenics population parenthood
Our failure to segregate morons who are increasing and multiplying . . . demonstrates our foolhardy and extravagant sentimentalism,
inheritance may population
Apply a stern and rigid policy of sterilization and segregation to that grade of population whose progeny is already tainted, or whose inheritance is such that objectionable traits may be transmitted to offspring.
beings born class dead failing human increasing waste weight
We are failing to segregate morons who are increasing and multiplying . . . a dead weight of human waste . . .an ever-increasing spawning class of human beings who never should have been born at all.
couple children should
Couples should be required to submit applications to have a child...
again american-activist dire drives factory goes mother poverty
Dire poverty drives this mother back again to the factory (no intelligent person will say she goes willingly).
american-activist bondage born cannot choose free measure race slave sons woman
A free race cannot be born to slave mothers. A woman cannot choose but give a measure of that bondage to her sons and daughters.
children giving firsts
The first right of every child is to be wanted, to be desired, to be planned for with an intensity of love that gives it its title to being.
unlawful exceed millions
Woman was and is condemned to a system under which the lawful rapes exceed the unlawful ones a million to one.
sex motherhood important
The most far-reaching social development of modern times is the revolt of woman against sex servitude. The most important force in the remaking of the world is a free motherhood ...
class community birth-control
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.
women goal important
Birth control is the first important step woman must take toward the goal of her freedom. It is the first step she must take to be man's equal. It is the first step they must both take toward human emancipation.
enthusiasm divine possession
Enthusiasm is a divine possession.