Margaret Sanger

“The most immoral practice of the day is breeding too many children.”

“We do not want word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population.”

“The real hope of the world lies in putting as painstaking thought into the business of mating as we do into other big businesses.”

“Birth control is the first important step woman must take toward the goal of her freedom.”

“Against the State, against the Church, against the silence of the medical profession... the birth control warrior wages bitter warfare.”

“No woman can call herself free who does not control her own body.”

“When a motherhood becomes the fruit of a deep yearning, not the result of ignorance or accident, its children will become the foundation of a new race.”

“The marriage bed is the most degenerating influence in the social order.”

“A woman's duty is to look the world in the face with a go-to-hell look in her eyes.”

“The most merciful thing that a family does to one of its infant members is to kill it.”

“Woman must not accept; she must challenge.”

“A free race cannot be born of slave mothers.”