Margaret Sanger Quotes

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

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.

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

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

The greatest issue is to raise the question of birth control out of the gutter of obscenity ... into the light of intelligence and human understanding.

It's not Planned Parenthood. No, it's planned genocide. You can quote me on that.

I do not pretend that birth control is the only way in which population can be kept from increasing. There are others, which, one must suppose, opponents of birth control would prefer.

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.

We have access to practical, ethical and scientifically established methods of birth control. So I think that is the most ethical way to reduce our population.

We want better reasons for having children than not knowing how to prevent them.

In order to stabilize human population growth, we must prioritize the education of girls, the empowerment of women, the provision of ubiquitous access to the knowledge and techniques of fertility management, and the continued raising of child survival rates.

Family planning, birth control, no Muslim family can practice such an understanding.

It is common sense that when women are able to plan their pregnancies, populations grow more slowly and as a result so do greenhouse gas emissions. Providing access to contraception and preventative health should be one of the many effective strategies used to fight climate change.

The second great channel through which the impulse towards the control of procreation for the elevation of the race is entering into practical life is by the general adoption, by the educated—of methods for the prevention of conception except when conception is deliberately desired.

If you can't control your reproduction, you can't control your life.

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.

I despise Birth-Control first because it is ... an entirely meaningless word; and is used so as to curry favour even with those who would first recoil from its real meaning. The proceeding these quack doctors recommend does not control any birth.

It is not in our hands to prevent our birth; but we can correct this mistake - for in some cases it is a mistake.

Have you noticed that all the people in favor of birth control are already born?

Many people are horrified at the idea of birth control. . . . It is simply the keynote of a new moral program.

The management of fertility is one of the most important functions of adulthood.

Nearly 100 years ago, when Planned Parenthood was founded, birth control was illegal.

For most women, including women who want to have children, contraception is not an option; it is a basic health care necessity.

Contraceptives should be used on every conceivable occasion.

As the largest contributor to the United Nations and funder of international family planning, the U.S. is in a unique position to continue to lead the global agenda and place reproductive health at its core.