121 Quotes by Margaret Sanger

We are failing to segregate morons who are increasing and multiplying . . . a dead weight of human waste . . .an ever-increasing spawning class of human beings who never should have been born at all.

The masses of Negroes...particularly in the South, still breed carelessly and disasterously, with the result that the increase among Negroes, even more than among whites, is from that portion of the population least intelligent and fit...

Couples should be required to submit applications to have a child...

Dire poverty drives this mother back again to the factory (no intelligent person will say she goes willingly).

A free race cannot be born to slave mothers. A woman cannot choose but give a measure of that bondage to her sons and daughters.

The ministers work is also important and he should be trained, perhaps by the Federation as to our ideals and the goal that we hope to reach. 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

No despot ever flung forth his legions to die in foreign conquest, no privilege-ruled nation ever erupted across its borders, to lock in death embrace with another, but behind them loomed the driving power of a population too large for its boundaries and its natural resources.

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.

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