Margaret Sanger Short Quotes

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

Margaret Sanger
You caused this. Mother is dead from having too many children.

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

Margaret Sanger
I accepted an invitation to talk to the women's branch of the Ku Klux Klan.

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

Margaret Sanger
The menace of another pregnancy hung like a sword over the head of every poor woman...

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

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

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

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It is apparent that nothing short of contraceptives can put an end to the horrors of abortion and infanticide.

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

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

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The truth was out. It illuminated the world. Motherhood no longer cringed before the relentless laws of fecundity.

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The campaign for birth control is not merely of eugenic value, but is practically identical with the final aims of eugenics.

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

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

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

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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.

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

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

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The greatest issue is to raise the question of birth control out of the gutter of obscenity... into the light of intelligence and human understanding.

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Through sex, mankind may attain the great spiritual illumination which will transform the world, which will light up the only path to earthly paradise.

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Knowledge of birth control is essentially moral. Its general, though prudent, practice must lead to a higher individuality and ultimately to a cleaner race.

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The main objects of the Population Congress would be [...] (f) to give certain dysgenic groups in our population their choice of segregation or sterilization.

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Our laws force women into celibacy on the one hand, or abortion on the other. [npg] Both conditions are declared by eminent medical authorities to be injurious to health.

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Woman must not accept; she must challenge. She must not be awed by that which has been built up around her; she must reverence that woman in her which struggles for expression.

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The most far-reaching social development of modern times is the revolt of woman against sex servitude. The most important force in the remaking of the world is a free motherhood...

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As often as I have witnessed the miracle [birth], held the perfect creature with its tiny hands and feet, each time I have felt as though I were entering a cathedral with prayer in my heart.

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Eugenics, which had started long before my time, had once been defined as including free love and prevention of conception... Recently it had cropped up again in the form of selective breeding.

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War, famine, poverty and oppression of the workers will continue while woman makes life cheap. They will cease only when she limits her reproductivity and human life is no longer a thing to be wasted.

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