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. Margaret Sanger More Quotes by Margaret Sanger More Quotes From Margaret Sanger To give certain dysgenic groups in our population their choice of segregation or sterilization. Margaret Sanger land choices giving Life has taught me one supreme lesson. This is that we must—if we are really to live at all, if we are to enjoy the life more abundant promised by the Sages of Wisdom—we must put our convictions into action. My remuneration has been that I have been privileged to act out my faith. Margaret Sanger sage taught lessons I cannot refrain from saying that women must come to recognize there is some function of womanhood other than being a child-bearing machine. Margaret Sanger refrain machines children The marriage bed is the most degenerative influence in the social order. Margaret Sanger influence bed order 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 are paying for and even submitting to the dictates of an ever increasing, unceasingly spawning class of human beings who never should have been born at all-that the wealth of individuals and of state is being diverted from the development and the progress of human expression and civilization. Margaret Sanger expression should-have civilization 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 Women of the working class, especially wage workers, should not have more than two children at most. The average working man can support no more and and the average working woman can take care of no more in decent fashion. Margaret Sanger fashion men children War, famine, poverty and oppression of the workers will continue while woman makes life cheap. They will cease only when she limits her reproductivity and human life is no longer a thing to be wasted. Margaret Sanger poverty limits war The procreation of [the diseased, the feeble-minded and paupers] should be stopped. Margaret Sanger procreation diseased should No more children should be born when the parents, though healthy themselves, find that their children are physically or mentally defective. Margaret Sanger healthy parent children 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 Enthusiasm is a divine possession. Margaret Sanger possession divine enthusiasm 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. Margaret Sanger privilege science death Like begets like. We gather perfect fruit from perfect trees... . Abused soil brings forth stunted growths. Margaret Sanger growth perfect tree Usually this desire [for family limitation] has been laid to economic pressure It has asserted itself among the rich and among the poor, among the intelligent and the unintelligent. It Margaret Sanger abortion intelligent children 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. Margaret Sanger eye looks world 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 Women must have economic and social equality with men. Margaret Sanger economic social men Never be ashamed of passion. If you are strongly sexed, you are richly endowed. Margaret Sanger ashamed passion ifs
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