Margaret Sanger Quotes: top 45 famous quotes about Margaret Sanger

Margaret Sanger Quotes & Sayings

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

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

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

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

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

We gather perfect fruit from perfect trees. — Margaret Sanger

The basic freedom of the world is woman's freedom. — Margaret Sanger

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

Give dysgenic groups [people with 'bad genes'] in our population their choice of segregation or [compulsory] sterilization. — Margaret Sanger

Couples should be required to submit applications to have a child ... — Margaret Sanger

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

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

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

The real hope of the world lies in putting as painstaking thought into the business of mating as we do into other big businesses. — Margaret Sanger

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

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

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. — Margaret Sanger

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

A free race cannot be born of slave mothers. — Margaret Sanger

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

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

Margaret Sanger didn't just introduce the idea of birth control into our culture at large, she freed women from indenture to their bodies. — Roxane Gay

Colored people are like human weeds and are to be exterminated. — Margaret Sanger

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

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

Birth control must lead ultimately to a cleaner race. — Margaret Sanger

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

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

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

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

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

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. — Margaret Sanger

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

Enthusiasm is a divine possession. — Margaret Sanger

Like begets like. We gather perfect fruit from perfect trees ... Abused soil brings forth stunted growths. — Margaret Sanger

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

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

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

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

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

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

Women must have economic and social equality with men. — Margaret Sanger

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

No gods, no masters. — Margaret Sanger