The founder of Planned Parenthood in her own words.
On blacks, immigrants and indigents:
"...human weeds,' 'reckless breeders,' 'spawning... human beings who never should have been born." Pivot of Civilization, referring to immigrants and poor people.
On the extermination of blacks:
"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…" Margaret Sanger's December 19, 1939 letter to Dr. Clarence Gamble - Sophia Smith Collection, Smith College: Massachusetts.
On murder:
"The most merciful thing that a family does to one of its infant members is to kill it." The Woman Rebel, Volume I, Number 1. Reprinted in Woman and the New Race. New York: Brentanos Publishers, 1922.
On the right of married couples to bear children:
"Couples should be required to submit applications to have a child," Birth Control Review, April 1932.
On sterilization of minorities:
"Eugenic sterilization is an urgent need ... We must prevent multiplication of this bad stock." Margaret Sanger, April 1933 Birth Control Review.
On Eugenics as policy:
"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.
On promiscuity:
"[Our objective is] unlimited sexual gratification without the burden of unwanted children..." The Woman Rebel, Volume I, Number 1. Reprinted in Woman and the New Race. New York: Brentanos Publishers, 1922.
On adultery:
"A woman's physical satisfaction was more important than any marriage vow," Birth Control in America, p. 11.
On marital sex:
"The marriage bed is the most degenerating influence in the social order," Sanger said. Birth Control in America, p. 23.
On abortion:
"Criminal' abortions arise from a perverted sex relationship under the stress of economic necessity, and their greatest frequency is among married women." The Woman Rebel - No Gods, No Masters, May 1914, Vol. 1, No. 3.
Stolen from Bohemian Like You
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