Margaret Sanger Quotes

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.

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

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

Knowledge of birth control is essentially moral. Its general, though prudent, practice must lead to a higher individuality and ultimately to a cleaner race.

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

Birth Control which has been criticized as negative and destructive, is really the greatest and most truly eugenic method, and its adoption as part of the program of Eugenics would immediately give a concrete and realistic power to that science. . . as the most constructive and necessary of the means to racial health.

We have yet to beat our drums for birth control in the way we beat them for polio vaccine. We are still unable to put babies in the class of dangerous epidemics, even though this is the exact truth.

Contraception really shouldn't be all that controversial because it's a tool a woman can use to delay her first birth until she's, say, 18 or 19 years old.

Contraceptives should be used on every conceivable occasion.

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.

No country has reduced its population growth without resorting to abortion.... Indeed, abortion, legal and illegal, now has become the most widespread fertility control method in use in the world today...

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

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

Did you ever notice that everyone in favour of birth control has already been born ?

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.

The biggest development in reproductive biology is the birth-control pill. Nobody ever talks about it, but look at the consequences: demographics; aging populations; the sinking population of Europe, Japan; immigration. It's incredible.

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

World fertility surveys indicate that anywhere from one third to one half of the babies born in the Third World would not be if their mothers had access to cheap, reliable family planning, had enough personal empowerment to stand up to their husbands and relatives, and could choose their own family size.

I feel very strongly about contraception even though I know people say that, as a good Catholic girl, I shouldn't. But I disagree because I think one of the keys to women's progression in the 20th century is being able to control their fertility.

The U. S. Agency for International Development has found that in every nation where information about contraception and access to methods of birth control are available, abortion rates decline

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

I don't believe in birth control.

Thoughtful education programs and access to effective forms of contraception are key to preventing unplanned pregnancy.

Contraception has to be available for anybody who needs it.