Planned Parenthood Quotes

• Our failure to segregate morons who are increasing and multiplying . . . demonstrates our foolhardy and extravagant sentimentalism.

  Margaret Sanger

  Eugenics, Population, Parenthood

  Margaret Sanger, Michael W. Perry, H. G. Wells (2003). “The Pivot of Civilization in Historical Perspective: The Birth Control Classic”, p.403, Inkling Books

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• Blacks, soldiers, and Jews are a menace to the race.

  Margaret Sanger

  Race, Soldier, Menace

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• I think the greatest sin in the world is bringing children into the world that have disease from their parents, that have no chance 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.

  Margaret Sanger

  Children, Thinking, World

  Interview with Mike Wallace, www.hrc.utexas.edu. September 21, 1957.

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• I accepted an invitation to talk to the women's branch of the Ku Klux Klan.

  Margaret Sanger

  Eugenics, Ku Klux Klan, Branches

  Margaret Sanger (2004). “The Autobiography of Margaret Sanger”, p.366, Courier Corporation

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• The most successful educational approach to the Negro is throgh a religious appeal. We do not want word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population, and the Minister is the man who can straighten out that idea if it ever occurs to any of their more rebellious members.

  Margaret Sanger

  Religious, Educational, Successful

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• Apply a stern and rigid policy of sterilization and segregation to that grade of population whose progeny is already tainted, or whose inheritance is such that objectionable traits may be transmitted to offspring.

  Margaret Sanger

  Population, Inheritance, May

  Margaret Sanger, Esther Katz (2007). “The Selected Papers of Margaret Sanger: Birth control comes of age, 1928-1939”, Univ of Illinois Pr

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• Birth control itself, often denounced as a violation of natural law, is nothing more or less than the facilitation of the process of weeding out the unfit, of preventing the birth of defectives or of those who will become defectives.

  Margaret Sanger

  Weed, Eugenics, Law

  Margaret Sanger (2005). “Woman and the New Race”, p.229, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Give dysgenic groups [people with 'bad genes'] in our population their choice of segregation or [compulsory] sterilization.

  Margaret Sanger

  Eugenics, People, Giving

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• There is only one reply to a request for a higher birthrate among the intelligent, and that is to ask the government to first take the burden of the insane and feeble-minded from your back. [Mandatory] sterilization for these is the answer.

  Margaret Sanger

  Intelligent, Government, Insane

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• In passing, we should here recognize the difficulties presented by the idea of 'fit' and 'unfit.' Who is to decide this question? The grosser, the more obvious, the undeniably feeble-minded should, indeed, not only be discouraged but prevented from propagating their kind. But among the writings of the representative Eugenists [sic], one cannot ignore the distinct middle-class bias that prevails.

  Margaret Sanger

  Writing, Class, Ideas

  Margaret Sanger, Michael W. Perry, H. G. Wells (2003). “The Pivot of Civilization in Historical Perspective: The Birth Control Classic”, p.369, Inkling Books

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

  Margaret Sanger

  Eugenics, Political, Adequate

  "The Eugenic Value of Birth Control Propaganda". "Birth Control Review", (p. 5), October 1921.

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• While there are cases where even the law recognizes an abortion as justifiable if recommended by a physician, I assert that the hundreds of thousands of abortions performed in America each year are a disgrace to civilization.

  Margaret Sanger

  Eugenics, Years, Law

  Margaret Sanger (2005). “Woman and the New Race”, p.126, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Birth control is nothing more or less than...weeding out the unfit.

  Margaret Sanger

  Weed, Eugenics, Birth Control

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• Women of the working class, especially wage workers, should not have more than two children at most. The average working man can support no more and and the average working woman can take care of no more in decent fashion.

  Margaret Sanger

  Fashion, Children, Men

  Family Limitation introduction (1914)

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

  Margaret Sanger

  Eugenics, Finals, Birth Control

  "The Eugenic Value of Birth Control Propaganda". "Birth Control Review", (p. 5), October 1921.

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• The undeniably feeble-minded should, indeed, not only be discouraged but prevented from propagating their kind.

  Margaret Sanger

  Eugenics, Kind, Discouraged

  Margaret Sanger, Michael W. Perry, H. G. Wells (2003). “The Pivot of Civilization in Historical Perspective: The Birth Control Classic”, p.369, Inkling Books

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• As an advocate of birth control I wish ... 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. In this matter, the example of the inferior classes, the fertility of the feeble-minded, the mentally defective, the poverty-stricken classes, should not be held up for emulation.... On the contrary, the most urgent problem today is how to limit and discourage the over-fertility of the mentally and physically defective.

  Margaret Sanger

  Eugenics, Civilization, Class

  "The Eugenic Value of Birth Control Propaganda". "Birth Control Review", (p. 5), October 1921.

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• No woman shall have the legal right to bear a child without a permit for parenthood.

  Margaret Sanger

  Children, Eugenics, Bears

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• The third group [of society] are those irresponsible and reckless ones having little regard for the consequences of their acts, or whose religious scruples prevent their exercising control over their numbers. Many of this group are diseased, feeble-minded, and are of the pauper element dependent upon the normal and fit members of society for their support. There is no doubt in the minds of all thinking people that the procreation of this group should be stopped.

  Margaret Sanger

  Religious, Exercise, Thinking

  The Morality of Birth Control, delivered 18 November 1921, Park Theatre, NY

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• On the contrary, the most urgent problem today is how to limit and discourage the over-fertility of the mentally and physically defective.

  Margaret Sanger

  Eugenics, Birth Rate, Today

  Margaret Sanger, Michael W. Perry, H. G. Wells (2003). “The Pivot of Civilization in Historical Perspective: The Birth Control Classic”, p.295, Inkling Books

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• Birth control must lead ultimately to a cleaner race.

  Margaret Sanger

  Eugenics, Race, Population

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• More children from the fit, less from the unfit -- that is the chief aim of birth control.

  Margaret Sanger

  Children, Birth Control, Fit

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• Thank you, Planned Parenthood. God bless you.

  Barack Obama

  Parenthood, God Bless You, God Bless

  Barack Obama's remarks at the Planned Parenthood Conference at the Marriott Wardman Park Hotel in Washington, D.C., obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. April 26, 2013.

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• Planned Parenthood is a gigantic bully, using Komen as its own personal punching bag.

  Karen Handel

  Bully, Bags, Punching

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• Thankfully, President Obama has stood firmly behind women's health care issues by supporting coverage for contraception and reaffirming commitment to organizations like Planned Parenthood.

  Felicity Huffman

  Commitment, Organization, Issues

  "Don't threaten women's health care" By Felicity Huffman, www.cnn.com. February 29, 2012.

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