Occupation: Activist Birth: September 14, 1879 Death: September 6, 1966
Women must have economic and social equality with men..
The marriage bed is the most degenerative influence in the social order..
Organized charity itself is. . . the surest sign that our civilization has bred, is breeding and is perpetuating constantly increasing numbers of def….
Give dysgenic groups [people with 'bad genes'] in our population their choice of segregation or [compulsory] sterilization..
Couples should be required to submit applications to have a child..
No woman shall have the legal right to bear a child without a permit for parenthood..
I cannot refrain from saying that women must come to recognize there is some function of womanhood other than being a child-bearing machine..
Woman must have her freedom, the fundamental freedom of choosing whether or not she will be a mother and how many children she will have. Regardless ….
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 ….
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 greate….
Eugenics, which had started long before my time, had once been defined as including free love and prevention of conception... Recently it had cropped….
The masses of Negroes...particularly in the South, still breed carelessly and disasterously, with the result that the increase among Negroes, even mo….
The real hope of the world lies in putting as painstaking thought into the business of mating as we do into other big businesses..
Like the advocates of Birth Control, the eugenists, for instance, are seeking to assist the race toward the elimination of the unfit. Both are seekin….
Against the State, against the Church, against the silence of the medical profession, against the whole machinery of dead institutions of the past, t….
Birth control is the means by which woman attains basic freedom..
The basic freedom of the world is woman's freedom..
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 ….
No more children should be born when the parents, though healthy themselves, find that their children are physically or mentally defective..