Margaret Sanger

"Eugenics, which had started long before my time, had once been defined as including free love and prevention of conception... Recently it had cropped up again in the form of selective breeding."

"Let us not confuse the sexual impulse with love, for it alone is not love, but merely a necessary quality for the growth of love."

"John Parsons: What about the women who want babies now and in 10 years won’t be able to have babies? Rather impractical don’t you think?"

"British Pathé: Mrs. Margaret Slee, President of America’s Planned Parenthood Federation, maintains that European Women should stop having babies for the next ten years:"

"These dangers inherent in the very idea of humanitarianism and altruism, dangers which have to-day produced their full harvest of human waste, of inequality and inefficiency, were fully recognized in …"

"When we first started out an anti-Negro white man offered me $10,000 if I started in Harlem first. His idea was simply to cut down the number of Negroes. ‘Spread it as far as you can among them,’ he s…"

"...we explained simply what contraception was; that abortion was the wrong way — no matter how early it was performed it was taking a life; that contraception was the better way, the safer way — it to…"

"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 recti…"