Margaret Sanger Quotes
Top 44 wise famous quotes and sayings by Margaret Sanger
Margaret Sanger Famous Quotes & Sayings
Discover top inspirational quotes from Margaret Sanger on Wise Famous Quotes.
No woman can call herself free until she can choose consciously whether she will or will not be a mother.
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
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.
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.
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.
No more children should be born when the parents, though healthy themselves, find that their children are physically or mentally defective.
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 ...
Woman was and is condemned to a system under which the lawful rapes exceed the unlawful ones a million to one.
The undeniably feeble-minded should, indeed, not only be discouraged but prevented from propagating their kind.
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.
Many people are horrified at the idea of birth control ... It is simply the keynote of a new moral program.