"...these two words [birth control] sum up our whole philosophy...It means the release and cultivation of better elements in our society, and the gradual suppression, elimination, and eventual extinction, of defective stocks -- those human weeds which threaten the blooming of the finest flowers of American civilization." | by: | Margaret Sanger
(1879-1966) American birth control activist, sex educator, nurse, founded the American Birth Control League, which later became the Planned Parenthood Federation of America |
Source: | High Lights in the History of Birth Control, October 1923. |
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