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Quote by Margaret Sanger

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

Quote by Margaret Sanger

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Margaret Sanger

Margaret Sanger was an American activist and founder of the birth control movement. Born on September 14, 1879, and dying on September 6, 1966, Sanger is renowned for her advocacy of reproductive rights and family planning, which was revolutionary at the time. more

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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.”

“The undeniably feeble-minded should, indeed, not only be discouraged but prevented from propagating their kind.”

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Book:The Pivot of Civilization in Historical Perspective: The Birth Control Classic

Source: The Pivot of Civilization in Historical Perspective: The Birth Control Classic

“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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Author:Margaret Sanger

“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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Book:Woman and the New Race

Source: Woman and the New Race

“The procreation of [the diseased, the feeble-minded and paupers] should be stopped.”

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Author:Margaret Sanger

“Give dysgenic groups [people with 'bad genes'] in our population their choice of segregation or [compulsory] sterilization.”

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Author:Margaret Sanger

“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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Book:Woman and the New Race

Source: Woman and the New Race

“Parents are people who yell and they yell and they yell and they yell. And you already have the point... and they're still yelling.”

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Author:Bill Cosby

“Birth Control is not contraception indiscriminately and thoughtlessly practiced. It means the release and cultivation of the better racial elements in our society, and the gradual suppression, elimination and eventual extirpation of defective stocks — those human weeds which threaten the blooming of the finest flowers of American civilization.”

“Birth Control which has been criticized as negative and destructive, is really the greatest and most truly eugenic method, and its adoption as part of the program of Eugenics would immediately give a concrete and realistic power to that science. . . as the most constructive and necessary of the means to racial health.”

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Book:The Pivot of Civilization in Historical Perspective: The Birth Control Classic

Source: The Pivot of Civilization in Historical Perspective: The Birth Control Classic