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
should-have cost world
I resolved that women should have knowledge of contraception. They have every right to know about their own bodies. I would strikeout--I would scream from the housetops. I would tell the world what was going on in the lives of these poor women. I would be heard. No matter what it should cost. I would be heard.
successful ideas people
As a cause becomes more and more successful, the ideas of the people engaged in it are bound to change ...
eugenics political adequate
Eugenics is the most adequate and thorough avenue to the solution of racial, political and social problems.
eugenics people giving
Give dysgenic groups [people with 'bad genes'] in our population their choice of segregation or [compulsory] sterilization.
children thinking world
I think the greatest sin in the world is bringing children into the world.
action conviction ifs
If we are really to live at all we must put our convictions into action.
strong-women empowering challenges
Woman must not accept; she must challenge.
mother attitude children
Woman must have her freedom, the fundamental freedom of choosing whether or not she will be a mother and how many children she will have. Regardless of what man's attitude may be, that problem is hers - and before it can be his, it is hers alone.
ocean motherhood law
... the ocean could not be swept back with a broom. The truth was out. It illuminated the world. Motherhood no longer cringed before the relentless laws of fecundity.
inspirational-life design preparation
As I look back upon my life, I see that every part of it was a preparation for the next. The most trivial of incidents fits into the larger pattern like a mosaic in a preconceived design.
christian humanity church
Birth control appeals to the advanced radical because it is calculated to undermine the authority of the Christian churches. I look forward to seeing humanity free someday of the tryanny of Christianity no less than Capitalism.
family fighting jail
Very early in my childhood I associated poverty, toil, unemployment, drunkenness, cruelty, quarreling, fighting, debts, jail with large families.
abortion horror ends
It is apparent that nothing short of contraceptives can put an end to the horrors of abortion and infanticide.
southern born native
Negroes and Southern Europeans are mentally inferior to native born Americans.