Quotes About Sanger

In a provocative move, the first issue of her periodical, Woman Rebel announced an intention to disperse contraceptive information. When the postal authorities declared this issue "obscene," Sanger avoided having it confiscated by mailing it in small batches all over the city. As subscriptions poured in, the post office declared five other issues unmailable.

Until 1943 I received no stipend. I was able to support myself as my mother was the daughter of a relatively wealthy cotton manufacturer.

When the history of civilization is written, it will be a biological history and Margaret Sanger will be its heroine.

A lot of well-meaning and important people take an interest in eugenics," Father said, still maintaining that curiously even tone. "Roosevelt does. Alexander Graham Bell does." "And Margaret Sanger," Mother chipped in. "A number of progressives.

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.

Based on their research, the Sanger scientists estimated that an embryo gains two or three new mutations every time its cells double.

When the history of civilization is written, it will be a biological history and Margaret Sanger will be its heroine.

Progressives like Margaret Sanger—founder of Planned Parenthood and a role model for Hillary Clinton—supported such causes as eugenics and social Darwinism. While abortion was not an issue in Sanger's day, she backed forced sterilization for "unfit" people, notably minorities. Sanger

When motherhood becomes the fruit of a deep yearning, not the result of ignorance or accident, its children will become the foundation of a new race.