Occupation: Activist Birth: September 14, 1879 Death: September 6, 1966
Diplomats make it their business to conceal the facts, and politicians violently denounce the politicians of other countries..
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 di….
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 embrac….
... it has always been the depth of my belief, my faith, or my love that was the mainspring of my behavior. When once I believed in doing a thing, no….
Birth control must lead ultimately to a cleaner race..
Diplomats make it their business to conceal the facts..
Some lives drift here and there like reeds in a stream, depending on changing currents for their activity. Others are like swimmers knowing the depth….
The emergency problem of segregation and sterilization must be faced immediately. Every feeble-minded girl or woman of the hereditary type, especiall….
The submission of her body without love or desire is degrading to the woman's finer sensibility, all the marriage certificates on earth to the contra….
The greatest issue is to raise the question of birth control out of the gutter of obscenity ... into the light of intelligence and human understandin….
Woman must not accept; she must challenge. She must not be awed by that which has been built up around her; she must reverence that woman in her whic….
No woman can call herself free who does not control her own body..
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..
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 th….
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 unfi….
On the contrary, the most urgent problem today is how to limit and discourage the over-fertility of the mentally and physically defective..
Eugenics is ... the most adequate and thorough avenue to the solution of racial, political and social problems..
Very early in my childhood I associated poverty, toil, unemployment, drunkenness, cruelty, quarreling, fighting, debts, jail with large families..
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….
Birth Control is not contraception indiscriminately and thoughtlessly practiced. It means the release and cultivation of the better racial elements i….
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….