Margaret Sanger Quotes


It is not enough to look backwards with pride, justified as that pride may be. We must look forward with hope and confidence, too.


Citations

Margaret Sanger, 1883-1966, Family Planning Advocate, Quoted by Planned Parenthood of Indiana Website, August 6, 2006

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Margaret Sanger
Margaret Sanger
  • Born: September 14, 1879
  • Died: September 6, 1966
  • Nationality: American
  • Profession: Social Reformer, Sex Educator, Writer, Nurse

Margaret Higgins Sanger was an American birth control activist, sex educator, writer, and nurse. Sanger popularized the term "birth control", opened the first birth control clinic in the United States, and established organizations that evolved into the Planned Parenthood Federation of America.