Quotes by Eugenics Eugenics is ... the most adequate and thorough avenue to the solution of racial, political and social problems. Margaret Sanger adequate eugenics political Birth control must lead ultimately to a cleaner race. Margaret Sanger eugenics population race I accepted an invitation to talk to the women's branch of the Ku Klux Klan. Margaret Sanger ku-klux-klan eugenics branches 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. Margaret Sanger eugenics giving mean The campaign for birth control is not merely of eugenic value, but is practically identical with the final aims of eugenics. Margaret Sanger eugenics finals birth-control 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. Margaret Sanger eugenics weed law The undeniably feeble-minded should, indeed, not only be discouraged but prevented from propagating their kind. Margaret Sanger discouraged eugenics kind Birth control is nothing more or less than...weeding out the unfit. Margaret Sanger eugenics weed birth-control 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. Margaret Sanger eugenics class civilization No woman shall have the legal right to bear a child without a permit for parenthood. Margaret Sanger eugenics bears children 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. Margaret Sanger eugenics law years Give dysgenic groups [people with 'bad genes'] in our population their choice of segregation or [compulsory] sterilization. Margaret Sanger eugenics giving people Our failure to segregate morons who are increasing and multiplying . . . demonstrates our foolhardy and extravagant sentimentalism. Margaret Sanger parenthood eugenics population On the contrary, the most urgent problem today is how to limit and discourage the over-fertility of the mentally and physically defective. Margaret Sanger birth-rate eugenics today Eugenics, which had started long before my time, had once been defined as including free love and prevention of conception... Recently it had cropped up again in the form of selective breeding. Margaret Sanger prevention eugenics long Every single case of inherited defect, every malformed child, every congenitally tainted human being brought into this world is of infinite importance to that poor individual; but it is of scarcely less importance to the rest of us and to all of our children who must pay in one way or another for these biological and racial mistakes. Margaret Sanger eugenics mistake children We should not minimize the great outstanding service of Eugenics for critical and diagnostic investigations. It demonstrates ... that uncontrolled fertility is universally correlated with disease, poverty, overcrowding and the transmission of hereditable traits. Margaret Sanger fertility eugenics disease Organized charity itself is. . . the surest sign that our civilization has bred, is breeding and is perpetuating constantly increasing numbers of defectives, delinquents and dependents Margaret Sanger eugenics numbers civilization No one can doubt that there are times when an abortion is justifiable but they will become unnecessary when care is taken to prevent conception. This is the only cure for abortions. Margaret Sanger eugenics abortion taken Isn't the only hope for the planet that the industrialized civilizations collapse? Isn't it our responsibility to bring this about? Maurice Strong eugenics responsibility civilization «123456789»
