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No woman can call herself free until she can choose consciously whether she will or will not be a mother.

Never be ashamed of passion. If you are strongly sexed, you are richly endowed.

I think the greatest sin in the world is bringing children into the world.

Very early in my childhood I associated poverty, toil, unemployment, drunkenness, cruelty, quarreling, fighting, debts, jail with large families.

The most merciful thing that a large family does to one of its infant members is to kill it. Margaret Sanger

We gather perfect fruit from perfect trees.

The basic freedom of the world is woman's freedom.

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

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.

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 ...

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

No woman can call herself free who does not control her own body.

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

Eugenic sterilization is an urgent need ... We must prevent multiplication of this bad stock.

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

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

When motherhood becomes the fruit of a deep yearning, not the result of ignorance or accident, its children will become the foundation of a new race.

She made people accept that women had the right to control their own destinies.

A free race cannot be born of slave mothers.

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

The marriage bed is the most degenerative influence in the social order,

Colored people are like human weeds and are to be exterminated.

Our failure to segregate morons who are increasing and multiplying ... demonstrates our foolhardy and extravagant sentimentalism,

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

Birth control must lead ultimately to a cleaner race.

Woman was and is condemned to a system under which the lawful rapes exceed the unlawful ones a million to one.

No woman can call herself free who cannot choose the time to be a mother or not as she sees fit.

The undeniably feeble-minded should, indeed, not only be discouraged but prevented from propagating their kind.

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

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

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.

No woman shall have the legal right to bear a child without a permit for parenthood.

Enthusiasm is a divine possession.

No gods, no masters.

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

The most merciful thing a large family can do to one of its infant members is to kill it.

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

The procreation of [the diseased, the feeble-minded and paupers] should be stopped.

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

If we are really to live at all we must put our convictions into action.

Women must have economic and social equality with men.

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