121 Quotes by Margaret Sanger

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

While there are cases where even the law recognizes an abortion as justifiable if recommended by a physician, I assert that the hundreds of thousands of abortions performed in America each year are a disgrace to civilization,

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

Colored people are like human weeds and are to be exterminated.

Life has taught me one supreme lesson. This is that we must – if we are really to live at all, if we are to enjoy the life more abundant promised by the Sages of Wisdom – we must put our convictions into action. My remuneration has been that I have been privileged to act out my faith.

The basic freedom of the world is woman’s freedom.

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

Birth control is the first important step woman must take toward the goal of her freedom. It is the first step she must take to be man’s equal. It is the first step they must both take toward human emancipation.

Every woman should be “absolute mistress of her own body.