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Quotes from Birth Control Review — Margaret Sanger

1879–1966 United States

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7 quotes

The campaign for birth control is not merely of eugenic value, but is practically identical with the final aims of eugenics.

Birth Control Review (1918)

Knowledge of birth control is essentially moral. Its general, though prudent, practice must lead to a higher individuality and ultimately to a cleaner race.

Birth Control Review (1918)

Our laws force women into celibacy on the one hand, or abortion on the other. [npg] Both conditions are declared by eminent medical authorities to be injurious to health.

Birth Control Review (1918)

Eugenics is … the most adequate and thorough avenue to the solution of racial, political and social problems.

Birth Control Review (1918)

Birth control is the first important step woman must take toward the goal of her freedom. It is the first step she must take to be man’s equal. It is the first step they must both take toward human emancipation.

Birth Control Review (1918)

All of our problems are the result of overbreeding among the working class, and if morality is to mean anything at all to us, we must regard all the changes which tend toward the uplift and survival of the human race as moral.

Birth Control Review (1918)

It is a noteworthy fact that not one of the women to whom I have spoken so far believes in abortion as a practice; but it is principle for which they are standing. They also believe that the complete abolition of the abortion law will shortly do away with abortions, as nothing else will.

Birth Control Review (1918)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Margaret Sanger (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.