Margaret Sanger founder of the International Planned Parenthood
Federation, was a proponent of forced eugenics, segregation, abortion,
birth control and sexual immorality. Here are some of her quotes:
"The most merciful thing that a family does to one of its infant members is to kill it."
Margaret Sanger (editor). The Woman Rebel, Volume I, Number 1. Reprinted in Woman and the New Race. New York:
Brentanos Publishers, 1922.
"Birth control must lead ultimately to a cleaner race."
Margaret Sanger. Woman, Morality, and Birth Control. New York: New York Publishing Company, 1922. Page 12.
"We should hire three or four colored ministers, preferably with social-service backgrounds, and
with engaging personalities. The most successful educational approach to the Negro is through a
religious appeal. We don't want the word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro
population. and the minister is the man who can straighten out that idea if it ever occurs to any of
their more rebellious members."
Margaret Sanger's December 19, 1939 letter to Dr. Clarence Gamble, 255 Adams Street, Milton, Massachusetts. Original source:
Sophia Smith Collection, Smith College, North Hampton, Massachusetts. Also described in Linda Gordon's Woman's Body,
Woman's Right: A Social History of Birth Control in America. New York: Grossman Publishers, 1976.
"Eugenic sterilization is an urgent need ... We must prevent multiplication of this bad stock."
Margaret Sanger, April 1933 Birth Control Review.
"Eugenics is … the most adequate and thorough avenue to the solution of racial, political and
social problems.
Margaret Sanger. "The Eugenic Value of Birth Control Propaganda." Birth Control Review, October 1921, page 5.
"Birth control itself, often denounced as a violation of natural law, is nothing more or less than the
facilitation of the process of weeding out the unfit, of preventing the birth of defectives or of those
who will become defectives."
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"As an advocate of birth control I wish ... to point out that the unbalance between the birth rate of
the 'unfit' and the 'fit,' admittedly the greatest present menace to civilization, can never be rectified
by the inauguration of a cradle competition between these two classes. In this matter, the example
of the inferior classes, the fertility of the feeble-minded, the mentally defective, the poverty-
stricken classes, should not be held up for emulation.... On the contrary, the most urgent problem
today is how to limit and discourage the over-fertility of the mentally and physically defective."
Margaret Sanger. "The Eugenic Value of Birth Control Propaganda." Birth Control Review, October 1921, page 5.
"The campaign for birth control is not merely of eugenic value, but is practically identical with the
final aims of eugenics."
Margaret Sanger. "The Eugenic Value of Birth Control Propaganda." Birth Control Review, October 1921, page 5.
"Our failure to segregate morons who are increasing and multiplying ... demonstrates our foolhardy
and extravagant sentimentalism ... [Philanthropists] encourage the healthier and more normal
sections of the world to shoulder the burden of unthinking and indiscriminate fecundity of others;
which brings with it, as I think the reader must agree, a dead weight of human waste. Instead of
decreasing and aiming to eliminate the stocks that are most detrimental to the future of the race
and the world, it tends to render them to a menacing degree dominant ... We are paying for, and
even submitting to, the dictates of an ever-increasing, unceasingly spawning class of human
beings who never should have been born at all."
Margaret Sanger. The Pivot of Civilization, 1922. Chapter on "The Cruelty of Charity," pages 116, 122, and 189. Swarthmore
College Library edition.
"The undeniably feeble-minded should, indeed, not only be discouraged but prevented from
propagating their kind."
Margaret Sanger, quoted in Charles Valenza. "Was Margaret Sanger a Racist?" Family Planning Perspectives, January-February
1985, page 44.
"The third group [of society] are those irresponsible and reckless ones having little regard for the
consequences of their acts, or whose religious scruples prevent their exercising control over their
numbers. Many of this group are diseased, feeble-minded, and are of the pauper element
dependent upon the normal and fit members of society for their support. There is no doubt in the
minds of all thinking people that the procreation of this group should be stopped."
Margaret Sanger. Speech quoted in Birth Control: What It Is, How It Works, What It Will Do. The Proceedings of the First American
Birth Control Conference. Held at the Hotel Plaza, New York City, November 11-12, 1921. Published by the Birth Control Review,
Gothic Press, pages 172 and 174.
"The marriage bed is the most degenerative influence in the social order..."
Margaret Sanger (editor). The Woman Rebel, Volume I, Number 1. Reprinted in Woman and the New Race. New York:
Brentanos Publishers, 1922.
"[Our objective is] unlimited sexual gratification without the burden of unwanted children..."
Margaret Sanger (editor). The Woman Rebel, Volume I, Number 1. Reprinted in Woman and the New Race. New York:
Brentanos Publishers, 1922.
"Give dysgenic groups [people with 'bad genes'] in our population their choice of segregation or
[compulsory] sterilization."
Margaret Sanger, April 1932 Birth Control Review.
These were available at http://www.eadshome.com/MargaretSanger.htm
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