10 More Shocking Quotes by Margaret Sanger the Founder of Planned Parenthood

Margaret Sanger was born September 14, 1879. She founded the International Planned Parenthood Federation in 1952. Sanger was a proponent of forced eugenics, free love, birth control and abortion. Margaret Sanger and her organization paved the way for the sexual revolution which have exploited countless women and led to divorce, co-habitation, the acceptance of a contraceptive mentality, abortion, fatherless homes, the rejection of the faith and numerous other dysfunctions that have plagued and destroyed millions of families.

The following quotations illustrate Ms. Sanger's barbaric views on human sexuality and the dignity of persons:

[Because of birth control], child slavery, prostitution, feeble mindedness, physical deterioration, hunger, oppression and war will disappear from the earth. There will come a Plato who will be understood, a Socrates who will drink no hemlock, and a Jesus who will not die upon the cross. These and the race that is to be in America await upon a motherhood that is to be sacred because it is free.

 — Margaret Sanger, Woman and the New Race

Our failure to segregate morons who are increasing and multiplying ... demonstrates our foolhardy and extravagant sentimentalism ... [Philanthropists] encourage the healthier and more normal sections of the world to shoulder the burden of unthinking and indiscriminate fecundity of others; which brings with it, as I think the reader must agree, a dead weight of human waste. Instead of decreasing and aiming to eliminate the stocks that are most detrimental to the future of the race and the world, it tends to render them to a menacing degree dominant ... We are paying for, and even submitting to, the dictates of an ever-increasing, unceasingly spawning class of human beings who never should have been born at all.

— Margaret Sanger. The Pivot of Civilization

Today eugenics is suggested by the most diverse minds as the most adequate and thorough avenue to the solution of racial, political and social problems

I think you must agree ... that the campaign for birth control is not merely of eugenic value, but is practically identical with the final aims of eugenics ... Birth control propaganda is thus the entering wedge for the eugenic educator.

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, "The Eugenic Value of Birth Control Propaganda"

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

— Margaret Sanger, April 1932 Birth Control Review. 

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. Speech quoted in Birth Control: What It Is, How It Works, What It Will Do. The Proceedings of the First American Birth Control Conference, 1921

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, quoted in Charles Valenza, "Was Margaret Sanger a Racist?" Family Planning Perspectives, January-February 1985, page 44.

Birth control must lead ultimately to a cleaner race.

— Margaret Sanger. Woman, Morality, and Birth Control

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, October 1926, Birth Control Review

Slavs, Latin, and Hebrew immigrants are human weeds... a deadweight of human waste... Blacks, soldiers, and Jews are a menace to the race.

Eugenic sterilization is an urgent need... We must prevent Multiplication of this bad stock.

— Margaret Sanger, [...] 1922, Birth Control Review

[Our objective is] unlimited sexual gratification without the burden of unwanted children ... [Women must have the right] to live ... to love ... to be lazy ... to be an unmarried mother ... to create ... to destroy ... The marriage bed is the most degenerative influence in the social order ... The most merciful thing that a family does to one of its infant members is to kill it.

 — Margaret Sanger (editor). The Woman Rebel, 1922.