Margaret sanger was the founder of the international planned parenthood federation. Here are some of her quotes.


"we should hire three or four colored ministers, preferably with social-service backgrounds, and with engaging personalities. The most successful educational approach to the negro is through a religious appeal. We don't want the word to go out that we want to exterminate the negro population. And the minister is the man who can straighten out that idea if it ever occurs to any of their more rebellious members."

--margaret sanger's december 19, 1939 letter to Dr. Clarence gamble, 255 adams street, milton, massachusetts. Original source: sophia smith collection, smith college, north hampton, massachusetts. Also described in linda gordon's woman's body, woman's right: a social history of birth control in america. New york: grossman publishers, 1976.


"eugenic sterilization is an urgent need ... We must prevent multiplication of this bad stock."
--margaret sanger, april 1933 birth control review.

"our failure to segregate morons who are increasing and multiplying ... Demonstrates our foolhardy and extravagant sentimentalism ... [philanthropists] encourage the healthier and more normal sections of the world to shoulder the burden of unthinking and indiscriminate fecundity of others; which brings with it, as I think the reader must agree, a dead weight of human waste. Instead of decreasing and aiming to eliminate the stocks that are most detrimental to the future of the race and the world, it tends to render them to a menacing degree dominant ... We are paying for, and even submitting to, the dictates of an ever-increasing, unceasingly spawning class of human beings who never should have been born at all."
--margaret sanger. The pivot of civilization, 1922. Chapter on "the cruelty of charity," pages 116, 122, and 189. Swarthmore college library edition.