On blacks, immigrants and indigents: "...human weeds,' 'reckless breeders,' 'spawning... human beings who never should have been born." Margaret Sanger, Pivot of Civilization, referring to immigrants and poor people
On the rights of the handicapped and mentally ill, and racial minorities: "More children from the fit, less from the unfit -- that is the chief aim of birth control." Birth Control Review, May 1919, p. 12
seems her chief aim for birth control was to get rid of the unfit, like negroes not for
'benefits of contraceptives (huge reductions in abortions and human suffering), we all owe to the efforts of Sanger.' |