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
sage lessons taught
Life has taught me one supreme lesson. This is that we must—if we are really to live at all, if we are to enjoy the life more abundant promised by the Sages of Wisdom—we must put our convictions into action. My remuneration has been that I have been privileged to act out my faith.
vision quests obstacles
It is ... marvellous ... to have a period of apparent fanaticism. No obstacle can discourage you. The single vision of your quest obscures defeat and lifts you over mountainous difficulties.
eugenics birth-control campaigns
The campaign for birth control is not merely of eugenic value, but is practically identical with the final aims of eugenics.
weed eugenics birth-control
Birth control is nothing more or less than...weeding out the unfit.
mother memories heart
The mother memories that are closest to my heart are the small gentle ones that I have carried over from the days of my childhood. They are not profound, but they have stayed with me through life, and when I am very old, they will still be near . . .
eugenics kind discouraged
The undeniably feeble-minded should, indeed, not only be discouraged but prevented from propagating their kind.
children eugenics bears
No woman shall have the legal right to bear a child without a permit for parenthood.
years law civilization
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,
ku-klux-klan eugenics branches
I accepted an invitation to talk to the women's branch of the Ku Klux Klan.
inspirational mother race
A free race cannot be born of slave mothers.
inspirational motivational inspiring
No woman can call herself free who does not control her own body.
weed people feminism
Colored people are like human weeds and are to be exterminated.
men babe born
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.
eugenics needs sterilization
Eugenic sterilization is an urgent need ... We must prevent multiplication of this bad stock.