Words from planned parenthood's founder.On blacks, immigrants and indigents: "...human weeds,' 'reckless breeders,' 'spawning... human beings who never should have been born." Margaret Sanger, Pivot of Civilization, referring to immigrants and poor peopleOn sterilization & racial purification: Sanger believed that, for the purpose of racial "purification," couples should be rewarded who chose sterilization. Birth Control in America, The Career of Margaret Sanger, by David Kennedy, p. 117, quoting a 1923 Sanger speech.On the right of married couples to bear children: Couples should be required to submit applications to have a child, she wrote in her "Plan for Peace." Birth Control Review, April 1932On the purpose of birth control: The purpose in promoting birth control was "to create a race of thoroughbreds," she wrote in the Birth Control Review, Nov. 1921 (p. 2)On the rights of the handicapped and mentally ill, and racial minorities: "More children from the fit, less from the unfit -- that is the chief aim of birth control." Birth Control Review, May 1919, p. 12
http://dianedew.com/sanger.htmA woman's physical satisfaction was more important than any marriage vow,
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Margaret_Sanger"The basic freedom of the world is woman's freedom. A free race cannot be born of slave mothers. A woman enchained cannot choose but give a measure of that bondage to her sons and daughters. No woman can call herself free who does not own and control her body. No woman can call herself free until she can choose consciously whether she will or will not be a mother.""Woman must have her freedom; the fundamental freedom of choosing whether or not she shall be a mother and how many children she will have. Regardless of what man's attitude may be, that problem is hers; and before it can be his, it is hers alone. [npg] She goes through the vale of death alone, each time a babe is born. As it is the right neither of man nor the state to coerce her into this ordeal, so it is her right to decide whether she will endure it. That right to decide imposes upon her the duty of clearing the way to knowledge by which she may make and carry out the decision. [npg] Birth control is woman's problem. The quicker she accepts it as hers and hers alone, the quicker will society respect motherhood. The quicker, too, will the world be made a fit place for her children to live."Woman and the New Race, Chapter 8, "Birth Control; A Parents' Problem or Woman's?" New York: Brentanos Publishers, 1922.
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Margaret_Sanger"[We propose to] 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. And we do not want 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."Commenting on the 'Negro Project' in a letter to Dr. Clarence Gamble, December 19, 1939. - Sanger manuscripts, 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.(Note: Dec. 10 is the correct date of the letter. There is a different date circulated, e.g. Oct. 19, 1939; but Dec. 10 is the correct date of Ms Sanger's letter to Mr. Gamble.)"Knowledge of birth control is essentially moral. Its general, though prudent, practice must lead to a higher individuality and ultimately to a cleaner race.""Morality and Birth Control", Birth Control Review, February-March, 1918, pp. 11,14."Eugenics is … the most adequate and thorough avenue to the solution of racial, political and social problems.""The Eugenic Value of Birth Control Propaganda", Birth Control Review, October 1921, page 5.The Birth Control Review, Nov. 1921 (p. 2)"Birth control: to create a race of thoroughbreds."
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Margaret_Sanger"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.""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.""The Eugenic Value of Birth Control Propaganda", Birth Control Review, October 1921, page 5.
http://bevets.com/evolutionconsequences.htm"Before eugenists and others who are laboring for racial betterment can succeed,they must first clear the way for Birth Control. Like the advocates of Birth Control,the eugenists, for instance, are seeking to assist the race toward the elimination of the unfit.Both are seeking a single end but they lay emphasis upon different methods. …"—Margaret Sanger, "Birth Control and Racial Betterment." Birth Control Review,February 1919, (vol. III, no. 2); p. 11.
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Margaret_SangerThe most merciful thing that the large family does to one of its infant members is to kill it.
