Occupation: Activist Birth: September 14, 1879 Death: September 6, 1966
If we are really to live at all we must put our convictions into action..
The most serious charge that can be brought against modern benevolence is that it encourages the perpetuation of defectives, delinquents and dependen….
Birth control is nothing more or less than...weeding out the unfit..
I wanted each woman to be a rebellious Vashti, not an Esther..
As a cause becomes more and more successful, the ideas of the people engaged in it are bound to change..
Blacks, soldiers, and Jews are a menace to the race..
Enthusiasm is a divine possession..
The first right of every child is to be wanted, to be desired, to be planned for with an intensity of love that gives it its title to being..
A free race cannot be born of slave mothers..
The undeniably feeble-minded should, indeed, not only be discouraged but prevented from propagating their kind..
We should not minimize the great outstanding service of Eugenics for critical and diagnostic investigations. It demonstrates ... that uncontrolled fe….
The procreation of [the diseased, the feeble-minded and paupers] should be stopped..
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 profo….
It is apparent that nothing short of contraceptives can put an end to the horrors of abortion and infanticide..
Woman was and is condemned to a system under which the lawful rapes exceed the unlawful ones a million to one..
Towards orthodox religion, father's own attitude remained one of tolerance. He looked upon the New Testament as the noble story of a human being whic….
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 mo….
... the ocean could not be swept back with a broom. The truth was out. It illuminated the world. Motherhood no longer cringed before the relentless l….
The most far-reaching social development of modern times is the revolt of woman against sex servitude. The most important force in the remaking of th….
Through sex, mankind may attain the great spiritual illumination which will transform the world, which will light up the only path to earthly paradis….
Speaking of Margaret Sanger, Grandson Alexander Sanger, head of Planned Parenthood of New York City, said: She made people accept that women had the ….