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Margaret Sanger

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    Margaret Sanger

    A free race cannot be born of slave mothers.

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    Margaret Sanger

    Against the State, against the Church, against the silence of the medical profession, against the whole machinery of dead institutions of the past, the woman of today arises.

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    Margaret Sanger

    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.

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    Margaret Sanger

    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.

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    Margaret Sanger

    As a cause becomes more and more successful, the ideas of the people engaged in it are bound to change.

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    Margaret Sanger

    As an advocate of birth control I wish ... to point out that the unbalance between the birth rate of the 'unfit' and the 'fit,' admittedly the greatest present menace to civilization, can never be rectified by the inauguration of a cradle competition between these two classes. In this matter, the example of the inferior classes, the fertility of the feeble-minded, the mentally defective, the poverty-stricken classes, should not be held up for emulation.... On the contrary, the most urgent problem today is how to limit and discourage the over-fertility of the mentally and physically defective.

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    Margaret Sanger

    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.

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    Margaret Sanger

    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.

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    Margaret Sanger

    A woman’s duty: To look the whole world in the face with a go-to-hell look in the eyes… to speak and act in defiance of convention.

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    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.

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    Margaret Sanger

    Birth Control is not contraception indiscriminately and thoughtlessly practiced. It means the release and cultivation of the better racial elements in our society, and the gradual suppression, elimination and eventual extirpation of defective stocks — those human weeds which threaten the blooming of the finest flowers of American civilization.

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    Margaret Sanger

    Birth control is nothing more or less than...weeding out the unfit.

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    Margaret Sanger

    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.

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    Margaret Sanger

    Birth control is the means by which woman attains basic freedom.

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    Margaret Sanger

    Birth control itself, often denounced as a violation of natural law, is nothing more or less than the facilitation of the process of weeding out the unfit, of preventing the birth of defectives or of those who will become defectives.

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    Margaret Sanger

    Birth control must lead ultimately to a cleaner race.

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    Margaret Sanger

    Birth Control which has been criticized as negative and destructive, is really the greatest and most truly eugenic method, and its adoption as part of the program of Eugenics would immediately give a concrete and realistic power to that science. . . as the most constructive and necessary of the means to racial health.

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    Margaret Sanger

    Blacks, soldiers, and Jews are a menace to the race.

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    Margaret Sanger

    By all means, there should be no children when either mother or father suffers from such diseases as tuberculosis, gonorrhea, syphilis, cancer, epilepsy, insanity, drunkenness and mental disorders. In the case of the mother, heart disease, kidney trouble and pelvic deformities are also a serious bar to childbearing No more children should be born when the parents, though healthy themselves, find that their children are physically or mentally defective.

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    Margaret Sanger

    Couples should be required to submit applications to have a child.

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    Margaret Sanger

    Covertly invest into non-White areas, invest in ghetto abortion clinics. Help to raise money for free abortions, in primarily non-White areas. Perhaps abortion clinic syndicates throughout North America, that primarily operate in non-White areas and receive tax support, should be promoted.

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    Margaret Sanger

    Diplomats make it their business to conceal the facts, and politicians violently denounce the politicians of other countries.

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    Margaret Sanger

    Diplomats make it their business to conceal the facts.

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    Margaret Sanger

    Enthusiasm is a divine possession.

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    Margaret Sanger

    Eugenics is ... the most adequate and thorough avenue to the solution of racial, political and social problems.

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    Margaret Sanger

    Eugenics, which had started long before my time, had once been defined as including free love and prevention of conception... Recently it had cropped up again in the form of selective breeding.

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    Margaret Sanger

    Every single case of inherited defect, every malformed child, every congenitally tainted human being brought into this world is of infinite importance to that poor individual; but it is of scarcely less importance to the rest of us and to all of our children who must pay in one way or another for these biological and racial mistakes.

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    Margaret Sanger

    Give dysgenic groups [people with 'bad genes'] in our population their choice of segregation or [compulsory] sterilization.

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    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.

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    Margaret Sanger

    How are we to breed a race of human thoroughbreds unless we follow the same plan? We must make this country into a garden of children instead of a disorderly back lot overrun with human weeds.

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    Margaret Sanger

    I accepted an invitation to talk to the women's branch of the Ku Klux Klan.

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    Margaret Sanger

    I cannot refrain from saying that women must come to recognize there is some function of womanhood other than being a child-bearing machine.

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    Margaret Sanger

    In passing, we should here recognize the difficulties presented by the idea of 'fit' and 'unfit.' Who is to decide this question? The grosser, the more obvious, the undeniably feeble-minded should, indeed, not only be discouraged but prevented from propagating their kind. But among the writings of the representative Eugenists [sic], one cannot ignore the distinct middle-class bias that prevails.

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    Margaret Sanger

    In the end, through simple illustrations I believed I had accomplished my purpose. A dozen invitations to speak to similar groups were proffered. The conversation went on and on, and when we were finally through it was too late to return to New York.

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    Margaret Sanger

    I think the greatest sin in the world is bringing children into the world that have disease from their parents, that have no chance to be a human being, practically. Delinquents, prisoners, all sorts of things just marked when they're born. That to me is the greatest sin - that people can - can commit.

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    Margaret Sanger

    It is a noteworthy fact that not one of the women to whom I have spoken so far believes in abortion as a practice; but it is principle for which they are standing. They also believe that the complete abolition of the abortion law will shortly do away with abortions, as nothing else will.

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    Margaret Sanger

    It is apparent that nothing short of contraceptives can put an end to the horrors of abortion and infanticide.

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    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.

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    Margaret Sanger

    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.

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    Margaret Sanger

    I wanted each woman to be a rebellious Vashti, not an Esther.

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    Margaret Sanger

    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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    Margaret Sanger

    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.

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    Margaret Sanger

    Like begets like. We gather perfect fruit from perfect trees... . Abused soil brings forth stunted growths.

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    Margaret Sanger

    Like the advocates of Birth Control, the eugenists, for instance, are seeking to assist the race toward the elimination of the unfit. Both are seeking a single end but they lay emphasis upon different methods.

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    Margaret Sanger

    Many people are horrified at the idea of birth control. . . . It is simply the keynote of a new moral program.

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    Margaret Sanger

    More children from the fit, less from the unfit -- that is the chief aim of birth control.

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    Margaret Sanger

    Negroes and Southern Europeans are mentally inferior to native born Americans.

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    Margaret Sanger

    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.

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    Margaret Sanger

    No more children should be born when the parents, though healthy themselves, find that their children are physically or mentally defective.

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    No one can doubt that there are times when an abortion is justifiable but they will become unnecessary when care is taken to prevent conception. This is the only cure for abortions.