Margaret Sanger Quotes About Children

Quotes about: Children

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

  Margaret Sanger

  Children, Birth Control, Fit

• I think the greatest sin in the world is bringing children into the world that have disease from their parents, that have no chance to be a human being, practically. Delinquents, prisoners, all sorts of things just marked when they're born. That to me is the greatest sin - that people can - can commit.

  Margaret Sanger

  Children, Thinking, World

  Interview with Mike Wallace, www.hrc.utexas.edu. September 21, 1957.

• Woman must have her freedom, the fundamental freedom of choosing whether or not she will be a mother and how many children she will have. Regardless of what man's attitude may be, that problem is hers - and before it can be his, it is hers alone.

  Margaret Sanger

  Mother, Children, Attitude

  Margaret Sanger (2005). “Woman and the New Race”, p.100, Cosimo, Inc.

• No woman shall have the legal right to bear a child without a permit for parenthood.

  Margaret Sanger

  Children, Eugenics, Bears

• 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

  Children, Mistake, Eugenics

  Margaret Sanger, H. G. Wells (2016). “The Pivot of Civilization”, p.134, Read Books Ltd

• When motherhood becomes the fruit of a deep yearning, not the result of ignorance or accident, its children will become the foundation of a new race.

  Margaret Sanger

  Mom, Mother, Children

  Margaret Sanger (2005). “Woman and the New Race”, p.232, Cosimo, Inc.

• 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, Children, Men

  Family Limitation introduction (1914)

• 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, Children, Father

• Couples should be required to submit applications to have a child.

  Margaret Sanger

  Children, Couple, Should

• No more children should be born when the parents, though healthy themselves, find that their children are physically or mentally defective.

  Margaret Sanger

  Children, Parent, Healthy

  Margaret Sanger (2005). “Woman and the New Race”, p.89, Cosimo, Inc.

• 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
  has been manifested in such horrors as infanticide, child abandonment and abortion.

  Margaret Sanger

  Children, Intelligent, Abortion

  Margaret Sanger (2005). “Woman and the New Race”, p.10, Cosimo, Inc.

• The first right of every child is to be wanted, to be desired, to be planned for with an intensity of love that gives it its title to being.

  Margaret Sanger

  Children, Giving, Titles

• 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

  Children, Machines, Refrain

  Margaret Sanger (1916). “What Every Girl Should Know”

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