Religious Appeal Quotes
Sanger was not only anxious to work with Black organizations, but she hired Blacks in her own projects—a very unusual practice for the time. There have always been in America some Blacks who saw in birth control a plan to reduce the Black population. However, there are also always been some whites who favored birth control and other activities precisely because they might reduce the Black population. So what seems like paranoia may actually be a rational reaction to other people and forces.
There was no Federal Program to pay for teachers of the recently freed slaves who had been prohibited by Southern State’s laws from learning to read or write at all. The Southern States were a shambles as a result of the war. An NGO raised private money to provide some education to Blacks, not a popular activity for most white Southerners.
The Pope appealed as a neutral force. In reality however, the Vatican had much at stake if war broke out. There were many German Catholics, some of whom might have been victimized by the Nazis and others who were Nazis. The independence of the Vatican itself was at stake as Italy had gone fascist. The war put the Pope in a very difficult political position which some argued colored his moral judgment and public statements. Most documents of the time are sealed by the Vatican.
