"The most merciful thing that the large family does to one of its infant members is to kill it." — @PPFA’s Margaret Sanger
“The most urgent problem today is how to limit and discourage the over-fertility of the mentally and physically defective.” — Margaret Sanger
"No more children should be born when the parents, though healthy themselves, find that their children are physically or mentally defective.” — Margaret Sanger
“A marriage license shall in itself give husband and wife only the right to a common household and not the right to parenthood." — Margaret Sanger
"No woman shall have the legal right to bear a child, and no man shall have the right to become a father, without a permit for parenthood." — Margaret Sanger
"We don’t want the word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population..." — Margaret Sanger
“Eugenics without birth control seems to us a house builded [sic] upon the sands. It is at the mercy of the rising stream of the unfit.” — Margaret Sanger
“Apply a stern and rigid policy of sterilization and segregation to that grade of population whose progeny is tainted, or whose inheritance is such that objectionable traits may be transmitted to offspring.” — Margaret Sanger
“[Abortion] means the release and cultivation of the 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." — Sanger
“All of our problems are the result of overbreeding among the working class... 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
“[Abortion] 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… If we are to make racial progress, this development of womanhood must precede motherhood ...” — Sanger
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