To: Greg or e who wrote (66057 ) 2/19/2015 4:28:17 AM From: Solon Read Replies (1) | Respond to LOL! The correct quote reads somewhat different. But even with the self serving editing of Bigots who have fought to denigrate her wonderful character (hoping it would somehow translate into an attack on Planned Parenthood)--the editing still does not show any racism whatsoever...only if you are paying to the very cheapest seats in the house:! The MORON/BIGOT Bleachers! Here is the correct quote--just for the record. (article 1 of 6 articles in a series--one of them still unfound) "Birth Control does not mean contraception indiscriminately practised. It means the release and cultivation of the better elements in our society, and the gradual suppression, elimination and eventual extinction, of defective stocks--those human weeds which threaten the blooming of the finest flowers of American civilization."nyu.edu somebody would have noticed before the Christian Bigot Generation of your life came along! Martin Luther King would have noticed! Millions of Blacks and whites and Jews would have noticed. Millions of Christians who supported her whole-heartedly would have noticed!UNracist and that is the reason that her ideas were embraced by men and women throughout the world--of every class, culture, and color! She fought shoulder to shoulder in the trenches beside every class and color of humanity to help them to create more fit families--less plagued by disease, poverty, and early mortality. Your quote mining does not change the meaning of her words. Of course she wanted the race to be "cleaner" and more "fit". These are goals that decent people DID have and DO have today! It is the goal of every sincere nurse and doctor--and every other compassionate health care provider.Buck v. Bell , the Supreme Court voted 8 to 1 to approve compulsory sterilization. In a majority opinion written by Oliver Wendell Holmes and signed by Louis Brandeis and William Howard Taft, the Court ruled, “It is better for all the world, if instead of waiting to execute the degenerate offspring for crime, or to let them starve for their imbecility, society can prevent those who are manifestly unfit from continuing their kind.” This certainly seems appalling today, but it hasn’t been allowed to define any of these men’s reputations. Most of us understand that it’s unfair to condemn people in the past for failing to meet the moral standards of the present.If Sanger had been an unregenerate racist, the leaders of the civil rights movement might be expected to have noticed. Instead, in 1966, the year Sanger died, Martin Luther King accepted Planned Parenthood’s Margaret Sanger Award. In the speech he wrote, delivered by his wife, Coretta Scott King, he described a “striking kinship between our movement and Margaret Sanger’s early efforts.” Sanger, he explained, “was willing to accept scorn and abuse until the truth she saw was revealed to the millions. At the turn of the century she went into the slums and set up a birth control clinic, and for this deed she went to jail because she was violating an unjust law. Yet the years have justified her actions. She launched a movement which is obeying a higher law to preserve human life under humane conditions.”
