Margaret Sanger Quotes About Birth

Quotes about: Birth

• Birth Control is not contraception indiscriminately and thoughtlessly practiced. It means the release and cultivation of the better racial elements in our society, and the gradual suppression, elimination and eventual extirpation of defective stocks — those human weeds which threaten the blooming of the finest flowers of American civilization.

  Margaret Sanger

  Weed, Latin, Flower

• Birth control must lead ultimately to a cleaner race.

  Margaret Sanger

  Eugenics, Race, Population

• Birth control appeals to the advanced radical because it is calculated to undermine the authority of the Christian churches. I look forward to seeing humanity free someday of the tryanny of Christianity no less than Capitalism.

  Margaret Sanger

  Christian, Money, Humanity

• More children from the fit, less from the unfit -- that is the chief aim of birth control.

  Margaret Sanger

  Children, Birth Control, Fit

• 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, Civilization, Class

  "The Eugenic Value of Birth Control Propaganda". "Birth Control Review", (p. 5), October 1921.

• 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

  Mean, Eugenics, Giving

  Margaret Sanger, Michael W. Perry, H. G. Wells (2003). “The Pivot of Civilization in Historical Perspective: The Birth Control Classic”, p.372, Inkling Books

• Birth control is the first important step woman must take toward the goal of her freedom. It is the first step she must take to be man's equal. It is the first step they must both take toward human emancipation.

  Margaret Sanger

  Women, Goal, Important

  "Morality and Birth Control". "Birth Control Review", (pp. 11, 14), February-March 1918.

• 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

  "The Eugenic Value of Birth Control Propaganda". "Birth Control Review", (p. 5), October 1921.

• 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

  Weed, Eugenics, Law

  Margaret Sanger (2005). “Woman and the New Race”, p.229, Cosimo, Inc.

• Many people are horrified at the idea of birth control. . . . It is simply the keynote of a new moral program.

  Margaret Sanger

  Ideas, People, Birth Control

• The greatest issue is to raise the question of birth control out of the gutter of obscenity ... into the light of intelligence and human understanding.

  Margaret Sanger

  Issues, Light, Understanding

• Birth control is the means by which woman attains basic freedom.

  Margaret Sanger

  Mean, Birth Control, Birth

  Margaret Sanger (2005). “Woman and the New Race”, p.5, Cosimo, Inc.

• No woman can call herself free who cannot choose the time to be a mother or not as she sees fit.

  Margaret Sanger

  Mother, Birth Control, Birth

  "The Case for Birth Control," Physical Culture, Apr. 1917

• Knowledge of birth control is essentially moral. Its general, though prudent, practice must lead to a higher individuality and ultimately to a cleaner race.

  Margaret Sanger

  Race, Practice, Individuality

  Margaret Sanger (1922). “Woman, morality, and birth control”

• As often as I have witnessed the miracle [birth], held the perfect creature with its tiny hands and feet, each time I have felt as though I were entering a cathedral with prayer in my heart.

  Margaret Sanger

  Prayer, Heart, Feet

  Margaret Sanger (2012). “The Autobiography of Margaret Sanger”, p.55, Courier Corporation

• Like the advocates of Birth Control, the eugenists, for instance, are seeking to assist the race toward the elimination of the unfit. Both are seeking a single end but they lay emphasis upon different methods.

  Margaret Sanger

  Race, Different, Birth Control

• Has knowledge of birth control, so carefully guarded and so secretly practiced by the women of the wealthy class - and so tenaciously withheld from the working women - brought them misery? Rather, has it not promoted greater happiness, greater freedom, greater prosperity and more harmony among them? The women who have this knowledge are the women who have been free to develop, free to enjoy in its best sense, and free to advance the interests of the community.

  Margaret Sanger

  Class, Community, Birth Control

  Margaret Sanger (1922). “Woman, morality, and birth control”

• Birth control is nothing more or less than...weeding out the unfit.

  Margaret Sanger

  Weed, Eugenics, Birth Control

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