The most merciful thing a large family can do to one of its infant members is to kill it.
—Margaret Sanger—
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.
—Margaret Sanger—
The masses of Negroes…particularly in the South, still breed carelessly and disasterously, with the result that the increase among Negroes, even more than among whites, is from that portion of the population least intelligent and fit.
—Margaret Sanger—
While “Planned Parenthood members have admitted the organization had ‘racist roots,'” there is little doubt that Sanger would be extremely pleased with the organization’s work and influence today.
From conservapedia.com, here are several additional quotes from Sanger (hyperlinks have been deleted)
- “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.”
- “Before eugenists and others who are laboring for racial betterment can succeed, they must first clear the way for Birth Control. Like the advocates of Birth Control, the eugenists, for instance, are seeking to assist the race toward the elimination of the unfit. Both are seeking a single end but they lay emphasis upon different methods.”
- “Organized charity is itself the symptom of a malignant social disease. Those vast complex, interrelated organizations aiming to control and to diminish the spread of misery and destitution and all the menacing evils that spring out of this sinisterly fertile soil, are the surest sign that our civilization has bred, is breeding and is perpetuating constantly increasing numbers of defectives, delinquents and dependents. My criticism therefore, is not directed at the ‘failure’ of philanthropy, but rather at its success” – Margaret Sanger, The Pivot of Civilization [NY: Brentano’s, 1922], (p. 108).
- “Birth control is not contraception indiscriminately and thoughtlessly practiced. It means the release and cultivation of the better racial elements in our society, and the gradual suppression, elimination and eventual extirpation of defective stocks – those human weeds which threaten the blooming of the finest flowers of American civilization.
- In Margaret Sanger’s book The Pivot of Civilization she also called for the elimination of “human weeds,” for the segregation of “morons, misfits, and maladjusted,” and for the sterilization of “genetically inferior races.”
In addition to azquotes.com, sources for the information on this page include conservapedia.com articles on Margaret Sanger and Planned Parenthood.