Quotes by Margaret Sanger

Margaret Sanger

… it has always been the depth of my belief, my faith, or my love that was the mainspring of my behavior. When once I believed in doing a thing, nothing could prevent my doing it.

Belief

Depth

Faith

… the ocean could not be swept back with a broom. The truth was out. It illuminated the world. Motherhood no longer cringed before the relentless laws of fecundity.

Law

Motherhood

Ocean

A free race cannot be born of slave mothers.

Inspirational

Inspiring

Mothers Day

A mutual and satisfied sexual act is of great benefit to the average woman, the magnetism of it is health giving. When it is not desired on the part of the woman and she has no response, it should not take place. This is an act of prostitution and is degrading to the woman’s finer sensibility, all the marriage certificates on earth to the contrary notwithstanding.

Average

Giving

Marriage

A woman’s duty: To look the whole world in the face with a go-to-hell look in the eyes… to speak and act in defiance of convention.

Eye

Looks

World

Against the State, against the Church, against the silence of the medical profession, against the whole machinery of dead institutions of the past, the woman of today arises.

Past

Reality

Silence

Apply a stern and rigid policy of sterilization and segregation to that grade of population whose progeny is already tainted, or whose inheritance is such that objectionable traits may be transmitted to offspring.

Inheritance

May

Population

As a cause becomes more and more successful, the ideas of the people engaged in it are bound to change.

Ideas

People

Successful

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.

Civilization

Class

Eugenics

As I look back upon my life, I see that every part of it was a preparation for the next. The most trivial of incidents fits into the larger pattern like a mosaic in a preconceived design.

Design

Life

Preparation

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Accepting

Action

Adequate

Aggravation

America

Ashamed

Atheism

Attitude

Average

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Bears

Bed

Belief

Believe

Birth

Birth Control

Birth Rate

Body

Born

Branches

Challenges

Chance

Children

Choices

Christian

Cities

Civilization

Class

Community

Conviction

Cost

Country

Couple

Courage

Death

Democracy

Depth

Design

Desire

Destiny

Different

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Discouraged

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Diseased

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Doe

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Quotes by Margaret Sanger

Margaret Sanger

… it has always been the depth of my belief, my faith, or my love that was the mainspring of my behavior. When once I believed in doing a thing, nothing could prevent my doing it.

… the ocean could not be swept back with a broom. The truth was out. It illuminated the world. Motherhood no longer cringed before the relentless laws of fecundity.

A free race cannot be born of slave mothers.

A woman’s duty: To look the whole world in the face with a go-to-hell look in the eyes… to speak and act in defiance of convention.

Against the State, against the Church, against the silence of the medical profession, against the whole machinery of dead institutions of the past, the woman of today arises.

Apply a stern and rigid policy of sterilization and segregation to that grade of population whose progeny is already tainted, or whose inheritance is such that objectionable traits may be transmitted to offspring.

As a cause becomes more and more successful, the ideas of the people engaged in it are bound to change.

As I look back upon my life, I see that every part of it was a preparation for the next. The most trivial of incidents fits into the larger pattern like a mosaic in a preconceived design.

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