Hillary Clinton “admired” Sanger “greatly.”
Quotes by Margaret Sanger
Courtesy of: America Needs Fatima
1. "But for my view, I believe that there should be no more babies."
— Interview with John Parsons, 1947.
2. "The most merciful thing that the large family does to one of its infant members is to kill it."
— Woman and the New Race, Chapter 5, "The Wickedness of Creating Large Families." (1920).
3. "We don’t want the word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population."
— Letter to Dr. Clarence J. Gamble, December 10, 1939, p. 2.
4. “I accepted an invitation to talk to the women's branch of the Ku Klux Klan... I was escorted to the platform, was introduced, and began to speak...In the end, through simple illustrations I believed I had accomplished my purpose. A dozen invitations to speak to similar groups were proffered.”
— Margaret Sanger, An Autobiography, published in 1938, p. 366.
5. “I think the greatest sin in the world is bringing children into the world, that have disease from their parents, that have no chance in the world to be a human being practically... Delinquents, prisoners, all sorts of things just marked when they’re born. That to me is the greatest sin—that people can—can commit.”
— Interview with journalist Mike Wallace, 1957.
6. “The most serious evil of our times is that of encouraging the bringing into the world of large families. The most immoral practice of the day is breeding too many children."
— Woman and the New Race, Chapter 5, The Wickedness of Creating Large Families. (1920).
7. “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.”
— The Birth Control Review, Birth Control and Racial Betterment (1919).
8. “As an advocate of birth control, I wish to take advantage of the present opportunity 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 rectified by the inauguration of a cradle competition between these two classes.”
— The Birth Control Review, The Eugenic Value of Birth Control Propaganda, p. 5 (1921).
9. “The most urgent problem today is how to limit and discourage the over-fertility of the mentally and physically defective.”
— Ibid.
10. "No more children should be born when the parents, though healthy themselves, find that their children are physically or mentally defective.”
— The Birth Control Review, When Should A Woman Avoid Having Children? Nov. 1918, 6-7, Margaret Sanger Microfilm, S70:807.
11. “A marriage license shall in itself give husband and wife only the right to a common household and not the right to parenthood."
— America Needs a Code for Babies, Article 3, March 27, 1934.
12. "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."
— Ibid, Article 4, March 27, 1934.
