It is ... marvellous ... to have a period of apparent fanaticism. No obstacle can discourage you. The single vision of your quest obscures defeat and lifts you over mountainous difficulties. Margaret Sanger More Quotes by Margaret Sanger More Quotes From Margaret Sanger Some lives drift here and there like reeds in a stream, depending on changing currents for their activity. Others are like swimmers knowing the depth of the water. Each stroke helps them onward to a definite objective. Margaret Sanger depth knowing water 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. Margaret Sanger design preparation life She goes through the vale of death alone, each time a babe is born. As it is the right neither of man nor the state to coerce her into this ordeal, so it is her right to decide whether she will endure it. Margaret Sanger babe states men 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. Margaret Sanger marriage average giving Our failure to segregate morons who are increasing and multiplying . . . demonstrates our foolhardy and extravagant sentimentalism. Margaret Sanger parenthood eugenics population Woman must not accept; she must challenge. Margaret Sanger strong-women empowering challenges It now remains for the United States government to set a sensible example to the Margaret Sanger government offering mean Couples should be required to submit applications to have a child. Margaret Sanger couple should children There is only one reply to a request for a higher birthrate among the intelligent, and that is to ask the government to first take the burden of the insane and feeble-minded from your back. [Mandatory] sterilization for these is the answer. Margaret Sanger insane government intelligent 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 By all means, there should be no children when either mother or father suffers from such diseases as tuberculosis, gonorrhea, syphilis, cancer, epilepsy, insanity, drunkenness and mental disorders. In the case of the mother, heart disease, kidney trouble and pelvic deformities are also a serious bar to childbearing No more children should be born when the parents, though healthy themselves, find that their children are physically or mentally defective. Margaret Sanger mother father children ... 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. Margaret Sanger motherhood ocean law It is apparent that nothing short of contraceptives can put an end to the horrors of abortion and infanticide. Margaret Sanger abortion horror ends In passing, we should here recognize the difficulties presented by the idea of 'fit' and 'unfit.' Who is to decide this question? The grosser, the more obvious, the undeniably feeble-minded should, indeed, not only be discouraged but prevented from propagating their kind. But among the writings of the representative Eugenists [sic], one cannot ignore the distinct middle-class bias that prevails. Margaret Sanger writing class ideas Diplomats make it their business to conceal the facts, and politicians violently denounce the politicians of other countries. Margaret Sanger diplomats country facts The most serious charge that can be brought against modern benevolence is that it encourages the perpetuation of defectives, delinquents and dependents. These are the most dangerous elements in the world community, the most devastating curse on human progress and expression. Margaret Sanger progress community expression She made people accept that women had the right to control their own destinies. Margaret Sanger destiny accepting people Many people are horrified at the idea of birth control. . . . It is simply the keynote of a new moral program. Margaret Sanger birth-control people ideas Possibly drastic and Spartan methods may be forced upon American society if it continues complacently to encourage the chance and chaotic breeding that has resulted from our stupid, cruel sentimentalism. Margaret Sanger chance stupid may Through sex, mankind may attain the great spiritual illumination which will transform the world, which will light up the only path to earthly paradise. Margaret Sanger light spiritual sex
