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1879–1966 United States
Margaret Higgins Sanger (September 14, 1879 – September 6, 1966) was an American birth control activist, feminist, and eugenicist who opened the first birth control clinic in the United States and established organizations that evolved into the Planned Parenthood Federation of America.
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More children from the fit, less from the unfit — that is the chief issue in birth control.
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Eugenic sterilization is an urgent need … We must prevent multiplication of this bad stock.
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The marriage-bed is the most degenerating influence of the social order.
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(We) are seeking to assist the white race toward the elimination of the unfit (blacks).
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We do not want word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population, if it ever occurs to any of their more rebellious members.
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Slavs, Latin and Hebrew immigrants are human weeds ... a deadweight of human waste ... Blacks, soldiers and Jews are a menace to the race.
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The mass of ignorant Negroes still breed carelessly and disastrously, so that the increase among Negroes, even more than the increase among whites, is from that portion of the population least intelligent and fit, and least able to rear their children properly.
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Throughout the 200+ pages of this book Sanger called for the elimination of "human weeds," for the cessation of charity, for the segregation of "morons, misfits, and maladjusted," and for the sterilization of "genetically inferior races."
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Birth control appeals to the advanced radical because it is calculated to undermine the authority of the Christian churches. I look forward to seeing humanity free someday of the tyranny of Christianity no less than Capitalism.
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