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
mom mother children
When motherhood becomes the fruit of a deep yearning, not the result of ignorance or accident, its children will become the foundation of a new race.
war limits poverty
War, famine, poverty and oppression of the workers will continue while woman makes life cheap. They will cease only when she limits her reproductivity and human life is no longer a thing to be wasted.
fashion children men
Women of the working class, especially wage workers, should not have more than two children at most. The average working man can support no more and and the average working woman can take care of no more in decent fashion.
marriage average giving
A mutual and satisfied sexual act is of great benefit to the average woman, the magnetism of it is health giving. When it is not desired on the part of the woman and she has no response, it should not take place. This is an act of prostitution and is degrading to the woman's finer sensibility, all the marriage certificates on earth to the contrary notwithstanding.
family socialism misandry
The most merciful thing a large family can do to one of its infant members is to kill it.
spiritual sex illumination
Through sex, mankind may attain the great spiritual illumination which will transform the world, which will light up the only path to earthly paradise.
eugenics disease fertility
We should not minimize the great outstanding service of Eugenics for critical and diagnostic investigations. It demonstrates ... that uncontrolled fertility is universally correlated with disease, poverty, overcrowding and the transmission of hereditable traits.
mother birth-control birth
No woman can call herself free who cannot choose the time to be a mother or not as she sees fit.
prayer heart hands
As often as I have witnessed the miracle [birth], held the perfect creature with its tiny hands and feet, each time I have felt as though I were entering a cathedral with prayer in my heart.
mean government offering
It now remains for the United States government to set a sensible example to the world by offering a bonus or a yearly pension to all obviously unfit parents who allow themselves to be sterilized by harmless and scientific means.