Margaret Sanger Quotes
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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
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
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
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
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