If our social conditions curtail manhood and womanhood, we must alter the social conditions. We must not go on quietly in a corner making men unmanly and women unwomanly, that they may fit into their filthy and slavish civilization.more Gilbert Keith Chesterton quotes |
Eugenics is … the most adequate and thorough avenue to the solution of racial, political and social problems.more Margaret Sanger quotes |
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.more Margaret Sanger quotes |
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Give dysgenic groups [people with 'bad genes'] in our population their choice of segregation or [compulsory] sterilization.more Margaret Sanger quotes |
Our failure to segregate morons who are increasing and multiplying… a dead weight of human waste… an ever-increasing, unceasingly spawning class of human beings who never should have been born at all.more Margaret Sanger quotes |
The campaign for birth control is not merely of eugenic value, but is practically identical with the final aims of eugenics.more Margaret Sanger quotes |
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The unbalance between the birth rate of the 'unfit' and the 'fit,' [is] the greatest present menace to civilization… the most urgent problem today is how to limit and discourage the over-fertility of the mentally and physically defective.more Margaret Sanger quotes |
The undeniably feeble-minded should, indeed, not only be discouraged but prevented from propagating their kind.more Margaret Sanger quotes |
We should hire three or four colored ministers, preferably with social-service backgrounds, and with engaging personalities. The most successful educational approach to the Negro is through a religious appeal. We don't want the word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population…more Margaret Sanger quotes |
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As we celebrate the 100th birthday of Margaret Sanger, our outrageous and our courageous leader, we will probably find a number of areas in which we may find more about Margaret Sanger than we thought we wanted to know...more Faye Wattleton quotes |