Eugenics Margaret Sanger Quotes & Sayings

Eugenics is the most adequate and thorough avenue to the solution of racial, political and social problems. — Margaret Sanger

Our failure to segregate morons who are increasing and multiplying ... demonstrates our foolhardy and extravagant sentimentalism, — Margaret Sanger

But we were made to believe and not allowed to think. We were told to obey, rather than to experiment and investigate. — Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Every single case of inherited defect, every malformed child, every congenitally tainted human being brought into this world is of infinite importance to that poor individual; but it is of scarcely less importance to the rest of us and to all of our children who must pay in one way or another for these biological and racial mistakes. — Margaret Sanger

Waiting for the pen to dry up so he can start fresh with thoughts that are worth new ink. — Brian Andreas

We should not minimize the great outstanding service of Eugenics for critical and diagnostic investigations. It demonstrates ... that uncontrolled fertility is universally correlated with disease, poverty, overcrowding and the transmission of hereditable traits. — Margaret Sanger

Perhaps J. P. Morgan did as a child have very severe feelings of inadequacy, perhaps his father did believe that he would not amount to anything; perhaps this did effect in him an inordinate drive for power for power's sake. But all this would be quite irrelevant had he been living in a peasant village in India in 1890. If we would understand the very rich we must first understand the economic and political structure of the nation in which they become the very rich. — C. Wright Mills

The art of acting is to be other than what you are. — Whoopi Goldberg

No woman shall have the legal right to bear a child without a permit for parenthood. — Margaret Sanger

Conceived in anger, addicted to hate, the mutant child of a twisted state. — Ozzy Osbourne

Eugenic sterilization is an urgent need ... We must prevent multiplication of this bad stock. — Margaret Sanger

The number one success in music supervision is when you can satisfy everybody on every level, creatively and in terms of the budget. That's when I'm most stoked, when we can balance the left-brained stuff and the right-brained stuff. — Liza Richardson

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. — Margaret Sanger

As we celebrate the 100th birthday of Margaret Sanger, our outrageous and our courageous leader, we will probably find a number of areas in which we may find more about Margaret Sanger than we thought we wanted to know ... — Faye Wattleton

Hate is also creative: it creates more hate. — Henry Dumas

The contemporary Planned Parenthood movement was started by a woman named Margaret Sanger, who defended abortion rights on the basis of eugenics, the search for "good genes" based on the racist and evolutionary notions of "social Darwinism" prevalent in her day. — Russell D. Moore

Eugenics, which had started long before my time, had once been defined as including free love and prevention of conception ... Recently it had cropped up again in the form of selective breeding. — Margaret Sanger

How do we protect the soul of democracy against bad theology in service of an imperial state? — Bill Moyers

Give dysgenic groups [people with 'bad genes'] in our population their choice of segregation or [compulsory] sterilization. — Margaret Sanger

[N]o one can doubt that there are times when an abortion is justifiable but they will become unnecessary when care is taken to prevent conception. This is the only cure for abortions. — Margaret Sanger

You have need to pray to God, not only to help you in your troubles
but to help you in your blessings — Charles Spurgeon

The undeniably feeble-minded should, indeed, not only be discouraged but prevented from propagating their kind. — Margaret Sanger

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

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. — Margaret Sanger