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
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Many people are horrified at the idea of birth control. . . . It is simply the keynote of a new moral program.
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She made people accept that women had the right to control their own destinies.
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As a cause becomes more and more successful, the ideas of the people engaged in it are bound to change ...
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Give dysgenic groups [people with 'bad genes'] in our population their choice of segregation or [compulsory] sterilization.
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Colored people are like human weeds and are to be exterminated.
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Dire poverty drives this mother back again to the factory (no intelligent person will say she goes willingly).
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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...
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Couples should be required to submit applications to have a child...
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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.
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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.
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The ministers work is also important and he should be trained, perhaps by the Federation as to our ideals and the goal that we hope to reach. We do not want word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population, and the minister is the man who can straighten out that idea if it ever occurs to any of their more rebellious members
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Organized charity itself is. . . the surest sign that our civilization has bred, is breeding and is perpetuating constantly increasing numbers of defectives, delinquents and dependents
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Knowledge of birth control is essentially moral. Its general, though prudent, practice must lead to a higher individuality and ultimately to a cleaner race.
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Our failure to segregate morons who are increasing and multiplying . . . demonstrates our foolhardy and extravagant sentimentalism,