Margaret Sanger Quotes

Break up the printing presses and you break up rebellion.

Neither the sword of popes, nor the cross, nor the image of death — nothing will halt the march of truth.

Books won't stay banned. They won't burn. Ideas won't go to jail.

Allow me a bit of philosophy here... We started tele skiing as a rebellion against rules.

All I've done all my life is disobey.

Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest.

Together, hand in hand, with our matches and our necklaces, we shall liberate this country.

I never liked the Hierarchy of the Church … but if the Clergy combine, they will have their influence on Government

Suppressing ideas never makes them go away.

Let the guarantee of free speech be in every man's determination to use it, and we shall have no need of paper declarations. On the other hand, so long as the people do not care to exercise their freedom, those who wish to tyrannize will do so; for tyrants are active and ardent, and will devote themselves in the name of any number of gods, religious and otherwise, to put shackles upon sleeping men.

I simply refuse to play by the rules.

I think it's important to rebel a little bit.

Everyone talks about, 'Get your foot in the door,' but I never understood that mentality. Why would I want to go in that house? Why not build my own house? Why not take a chair and smash a window?

As night-fall does not come at once, neither does oppression...It is in such twilight that we all must be aware of change in the air - however slight - lest we become victims of the darkness.

No one can tell us no. No one can make us stop. We have picked each other and the rest of the world can go to hell.

I hope in these days we have heard the last of conformity and consistency. Let the words be gazetted and ridiculous henceforward.Instead of the gong for dinner, let us hear a whistle from the Spartan fife.

The key of joy is disobedience.

I suddenly discovered the delight of rebellion.

I'm going to be me as I am, and you can beat me or jail me or even kill me, but I'm not going to be what you want me to be.

Irreverence is the lifeblood of freedom.

You all say you need us. Well, maybe you do, but not to help, with the millions of bubbly new minds about to be unleashed, with all the cities coming awake at last. Together, you're more than enough to change the world without us. So from now on, David and I are here to stand in your way. You see, freedom has a way of destroying things.

I've got to get out of here. I choose a piece of shawl and my dirtiest suntans. I'll be back, I'll re-emerge, defeated, from the valley; you don't want me to go where you go, so I go where you don't want me to.

Long live freedom and damn the ideologies.

The church hates a thinker precisely for the same reason a robber dislikes a sheriff, or a thief despises the prosecuting witness.