Margaret Sanger vs. Robert G. Ingersoll
Side-by-side comparison of two thinkers
Margaret Sanger
1879 – 1966
Margaret Sanger was an American birth control activist, sex educator, writer, and nurse. She opened the first birth control clinic in the United States, founded Planned Parenthood, and was instrumental in the development of the first birth control pill. Sanger is regarded as a founder and leader of the birth control movement.
"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 i…"
Robert G. Ingersoll
1833 – 1899
Robert Green Ingersoll, nicknamed "the Great Agnostic", was an American lawyer, writer, and orator during the Golden Age of Free Thought, who campaigned in defense of agnosticism.
"The priest said to the man who married: “Remember that you are caught for life. This door opens but once. Before this den of matrimony the tracks are all one wa…"
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