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| birth_place = Corning, New York

| birth_place = Corning, New York

| death_date  = September 6, 1966

| death_date  = September 6, 1966

| death_place = Tucson, Arizona<ref name=obit>[http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/bday/0914.html Margaret Sanger Is Dead at 82; Led Campaign for Birth Control]</ref>

| death_place = Tucson, Arizona<ref name=obit>[https://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/bday/0914.html Margaret Sanger Is Dead at 82; Led Campaign for Birth Control]</ref>

| nationality = American

| nationality = American

| spouse      = William Sanger, <br /> James Noah H. Slee<ref name=obit />

| spouse      = William Sanger, <br /> James Noah H. Slee<ref name=obit />

Sanger was born on September 14, 1879 in Corning, New York as Margaret Louise Higgins<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=vbQa8tnhr1EC&pg=PA114 Margaret Sanger]</ref> to Michael Hennessey Higgins and Anne Purcell Higgins.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=ZuzP2yWtmj4C&pg=PA200 A to Z of American Women Leaders and Activists]</ref>  Her brothers and sisters were: Ethel, Henry, John, Joseph, Lawrence, Mary, Nan, Richard, Robert, and Thomas.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=vNkTEWUQXIcC&pg=PA651 Woman of Valor: Margaret Sanger and the Birth Control Movement in America]</ref><ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=u7pgCFIcH2cC&pg=PA339 Margaret Sanger: A Life of Passion]</ref>

Sanger was born on September 14, 1879 in Corning, New York as Margaret Louise Higgins<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=vbQa8tnhr1EC&pg=PA114 Margaret Sanger]</ref> to Michael Hennessey Higgins and Anne Purcell Higgins.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=ZuzP2yWtmj4C&pg=PA200 A to Z of American Women Leaders and Activists]</ref>  Her brothers and sisters were: Ethel, Henry, John, Joseph, Lawrence, Mary, Nan, Richard, Robert, and Thomas.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=vNkTEWUQXIcC&pg=PA651 Woman of Valor: Margaret Sanger and the Birth Control Movement in America]</ref><ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=u7pgCFIcH2cC&pg=PA339 Margaret Sanger: A Life of Passion]</ref>

[[Image:Sanger 1916.jpg|thumb|left|150px|Sanger in 1916]]

[[Image:Sanger 1916.jpg|thumb|left|150px|Sanger in 1916]]

Among Sanger's siblings, her brother Robert("Bob") was a well known football player who was elected to the College Football Hall of Fame in 1954.<ref>[http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=60335972 Robert A. "Bob, The Hig" Higgins]</ref>  Her sister [[Ethel Higgins Byrne]] was a radical feminist activist like Margaret was.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=_Gx8oOw9DHQC&pg=PA22 Dorothy Day: Champion of the Poor]</ref>  When Margaret was nineteen years old, her mother Anne passed away from [[Tuberculosis]] at the age of fifty.  But Margaret was already at this time blaming all of the problems of the world on overpopulation and large families.  At the funeral, she exploded toward her father, blaming him for her death.  "You caused this. Mother is dead from having too many children!"<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=hKq5DAAAQBAJ&pg=PT31 Their Angry Creed: The shocking history of feminism, and how it is destroying our way of life]</ref>

Among Sanger's siblings, her brother Robert("Bob") was a well known football player who was elected to the College Football Hall of Fame in 1954.<ref>[https://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=60335972 Robert A. "Bob, The Hig" Higgins]</ref>  Her sister [[Ethel Higgins Byrne]] was a radical feminist activist like Margaret was.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=_Gx8oOw9DHQC&pg=PA22 Dorothy Day: Champion of the Poor]</ref>  When Margaret was nineteen years old, her mother Anne passed away from [[Tuberculosis]] at the age of fifty.  But Margaret was already at this time blaming all of the problems of the world on overpopulation and large families.  At the funeral, she exploded toward her father, blaming him for her death.  "You caused this. Mother is dead from having too many children!"<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=hKq5DAAAQBAJ&pg=PT31 Their Angry Creed: The shocking history of feminism, and how it is destroying our way of life]</ref>

In 1896, she was enrolled in Claverack College and Hudson River Institute by her parents.  Her tuition was initially paid for by two of her sisters.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=vbQa8tnhr1EC&pg=PA12 Margaret Sanger]</ref>  As a young adult, Margaret attended nursing school at the White Plains Hospital in New York.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=jfN1x3hrMBMC&pg=PA20 Margaret Sanger], Nancy Whitelaw</ref>

In 1896, she was enrolled in Claverack College and Hudson River Institute by her parents.  Her tuition was initially paid for by two of her sisters.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=vbQa8tnhr1EC&pg=PA12 Margaret Sanger]</ref>  As a young adult, Margaret attended nursing school at the White Plains Hospital in New York.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=jfN1x3hrMBMC&pg=PA20 Margaret Sanger], Nancy Whitelaw</ref>

====Ideology====

====Ideology====

She believed that some people should be 100% barred from procreation of any kind, rather than limited encouragement that could produce the wrong kind of people, if, albeit, less of them.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=aNn_AwAAQBAJ&pg=PA409 The Birth Control Movement and American Society: From Private Vice to Public Virtue], See footnote 49</ref>  She said as much, in a video that surfaced in 2014 from a 1947 ''One Minute News'' interview she was in with John Parsons of British Pathé.  In the footage, she called for a 10-year ban on babies, insisting that it is both practical and humane.<ref>[http://liveactionnews.org/shocking-new-footage-found-of-planned-parenthood-founder-margaret-sanger-saying-no-more-babies/ Shocking new footage found of Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger saying "no more babies"], [[Live Action]]</ref><ref>[http://archives.chicagotribune.com/1947/07/04/page/9/article/ban-on-babies-is-all-wet-cry-angry-britons Ban on Babies is All Wet, Cry Angry Britons], [[Chicago Tribune]]</ref><ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ChCjgYGTL4Y "No More Babies!" - Expert Calls For Ban on Childbirth (1947)], British Pathé</ref>  She again made similar comments in 1957 in an interview with Mike Wallace of ABC.  Wallace asked her if she believed in the existence of sin and her response was that "I think the greatest sin in the world is bringing children into the world" - and after a few second uncomfortable pause she said "that have disease from their parents, that have no chance in the world to be a human being practically.  Delinquents, prisoners, all sorts of things, just marked when they’re born. That, to me, is the greatest sin that people can commit."<ref>[http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/zachary-leshin/planned-parenthood-founder-margaret-sanger-greatest-sin-world-bringing Planned Parenthood Founder: 'Greatest Sin...is Bringing Children Into the World That Have Disease'], [[CNSNews.com]]</ref>

She believed that some people should be 100% barred from procreation of any kind, rather than limited encouragement that could produce the wrong kind of people, if, albeit, less of them.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=aNn_AwAAQBAJ&pg=PA409 The Birth Control Movement and American Society: From Private Vice to Public Virtue], See footnote 49</ref>  She said as much, in a video that surfaced in 2014 from a 1947 ''One Minute News'' interview she was in with John Parsons of British Pathé.  In the footage, she called for a 10-year ban on babies, insisting that it is both practical and humane.<ref>[http://liveactionnews.org/shocking-new-footage-found-of-planned-parenthood-founder-margaret-sanger-saying-no-more-babies/ Shocking new footage found of Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger saying "no more babies"], [[Live Action]]</ref><ref>[http://archives.chicagotribune.com/1947/07/04/page/9/article/ban-on-babies-is-all-wet-cry-angry-britons Ban on Babies is All Wet, Cry Angry Britons], [[Chicago Tribune]]</ref><ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ChCjgYGTL4Y "No More Babies!" - Expert Calls For Ban on Childbirth (1947)], British Pathé</ref>  She again made similar comments in 1957 in an interview with Mike Wallace of ABC.  Wallace asked her if she believed in the existence of sin and her response was that "I think the greatest sin in the world is bringing children into the world" - and after a few second uncomfortable pause she said "that have disease from their parents, that have no chance in the world to be a human being practically.  Delinquents, prisoners, all sorts of things, just marked when they’re born. That, to me, is the greatest sin that people can commit."<ref>[https://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/zachary-leshin/planned-parenthood-founder-margaret-sanger-greatest-sin-world-bringing Planned Parenthood Founder: 'Greatest Sin...is Bringing Children Into the World That Have Disease'], [[CNSNews.com]]</ref>

====The pill====

====The pill====

==Death and legacy==

==Death and legacy==

Sanger died in Tucson, Arizona on September 6, 1966,<ref name=obit /> of complications from congestive heart failure.<ref>[https://csivc.csi.cuny.edu/history/files/lavender/386/msanger.html Margaret Sanger 1879 - 1966], The founder of the birth-control movement in the United States</ref>  She was 86 years old.<ref>[http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/bday/0914.html Margaret Sanger Is Dead at 82; Led Campaign for Birth Control], [[The New York Times]]</ref>  She is buried in the prestigious Green-Wood Cemetery in Sunset Park, Brooklyn.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=tIXZvYmOBGIC&pg=PA79 The Graveyard Shift: A Family Historian's Guide to New York City Cemeteries]</ref>

Sanger died in Tucson, Arizona on September 6, 1966,<ref name=obit /> of complications from congestive heart failure.<ref>[https://csivc.csi.cuny.edu/history/files/lavender/386/msanger.html Margaret Sanger 1879 - 1966], The founder of the birth-control movement in the United States</ref>  She was 86 years old.<ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/bday/0914.html Margaret Sanger Is Dead at 82; Led Campaign for Birth Control], [[The New York Times]]</ref>  She is buried in the prestigious Green-Wood Cemetery in Sunset Park, Brooklyn.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=tIXZvYmOBGIC&pg=PA79 The Graveyard Shift: A Family Historian's Guide to New York City Cemeteries]</ref>

[[Image:Sanger SI.jpg|thumb|right|160px]]

[[Image:Sanger SI.jpg|thumb|right|160px]]

[[Planned Parenthood]] annually gives awards to those who support them and the top award  they give is called ''The Margaret Sanger Award''.<ref>[http://www.mailman.hs.columbia.edu/news/e-newsletter/AtTheFrontline-vol1no3/ne-AR-Sanger-Award.html Allan Rosenfield Receives the Reproductive Rights Movement's Highest Honor - Planned Parenthood Federation of America's Margaret Sanger Award]</ref><ref>[http://www.plannedparenthood.org/about-us/who-we-are/ppfa-margaret-sanger-award-winners.htm PPFA Margaret Sanger Award Winners]</ref> [[Alan Guttmacher]], who was a President of Planned Parenthood from 1962 to 1974 and who was also former Vice-President of the American Eugenics Society,<ref>[http://catholicwriter.wordpress.com/2007/01/29/what-is-roe-v-wade/ What is Roe v. Wade?]</ref><ref>[http://www.eugenics-watch.com/ Eugenics Watch]</ref> stated: "We are merely walking down the path that Ms. Sanger has carved out for us." <ref>[http://www.nationallifechain.org/PP.pdf What the Facts Reveal About Planned Parenthood]</ref><ref name="lifesite.net">[http://www.lifesite.net/waronfamily/Population_Control/Inherentracism.pdf The Inherent Racism of Population Control By Paul Jalsevac]</ref> Similarly, Faye Wattleton, who was the president of Planned Parenthood until 1992, stated that she was "proud" to be "walking in the footsteps" of Margaret Sanger.<ref name="lifesite.net"/>  In 1960, Sanger was nominated for a [[Nobel Peace Prize]].<ref>[https://www.nobelprize.org/nomination/archive/show.php?id=15785 Nomination Database]</ref>

[[Planned Parenthood]] annually gives awards to those who support them and the top award  they give is called ''The Margaret Sanger Award''.<ref>[http://www.mailman.hs.columbia.edu/news/e-newsletter/AtTheFrontline-vol1no3/ne-AR-Sanger-Award.html Allan Rosenfield Receives the Reproductive Rights Movement's Highest Honor - Planned Parenthood Federation of America's Margaret Sanger Award]</ref><ref>[http://www.plannedparenthood.org/about-us/who-we-are/ppfa-margaret-sanger-award-winners.htm PPFA Margaret Sanger Award Winners]</ref> [[Alan Guttmacher]], who was a President of Planned Parenthood from 1962 to 1974 and who was also former Vice-President of the American Eugenics Society,<ref>[http://catholicwriter.wordpress.com/2007/01/29/what-is-roe-v-wade/ What is Roe v. Wade?]</ref><ref>[http://www.eugenics-watch.com/ Eugenics Watch]</ref> stated: "We are merely walking down the path that Ms. Sanger has carved out for us." <ref>[http://www.nationallifechain.org/PP.pdf What the Facts Reveal About Planned Parenthood]</ref><ref name="lifesite.net">[http://www.lifesite.net/waronfamily/Population_Control/Inherentracism.pdf The Inherent Racism of Population Control By Paul Jalsevac]</ref> Similarly, Faye Wattleton, who was the president of Planned Parenthood until 1992, stated that she was "proud" to be "walking in the footsteps" of Margaret Sanger.<ref name="lifesite.net"/>  In 1960, Sanger was nominated for a [[Nobel Peace Prize]].<ref>[https://www.nobelprize.org/nomination/archive/show.php?id=15785 Nomination Database]</ref>

Dr. William Moulton Marston developed the character [[Wonder Woman]] through his inspiration of Sanger.<ref>[http://www.npr.org/2015/07/10/421464118/the-man-behind-wonder-woman-was-inspired-by-both-suffragists-and-centerfolds The Man Behind Wonder Woman Was Inspired By Both Suffragists And Centerfolds]</ref>

Dr. William Moulton Marston developed the character [[Wonder Woman]] through his inspiration of Sanger.<ref>[http://www.npr.org/2015/07/10/421464118/the-man-behind-wonder-woman-was-inspired-by-both-suffragists-and-centerfolds The Man Behind Wonder Woman Was Inspired By Both Suffragists And Centerfolds]</ref>

A request was sent to the [[Smithsonian Institution]] for a bust of Sanger currently on display in a "Struggle for Justice" exhibit.  The bust was a gift of Cordelia Scaife May.<ref>[http://collections.si.edu/search/tag/tagDoc.htm?recordID=npg_NPG.72.70 NPG.72.70]</ref>  The request, led by a group of black pastors, noted that Sanger has previously spoke in front of the KKK, as well as a long line of racist viewpoints.<ref>[http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/penny-starr/smithsonian-refuses-request-black-pastors-remove-bust-eugenicist-planned Smithsonian Refuses Request from Black Pastors to Remove Bust of Eugenicist Planned Parenthood Founder]</ref><ref>[http://www.lifenews.com/2015/08/22/smithsonian-refuses-to-remove-margaret-sanger-statue-we-dont-care-she-was-a-eugenicist/ Smithsonian Refuses to Remove Margaret Sanger Statue: We Don’t Care She Was a Eugenicist], [[LifeNews.com]]</ref><ref>[http://time.com/4013069/planned-parenthood-margaret-sanger-national-portrait-gallery/ Conservatives Want Bust of Planned Parenthood Founder Removed From National Portrait Gallery], [[Time magazine]]</ref>  One reason the Smithsonian refused the request was because of her role in Women's rights.  The pastors noted that it would make more sense to place the bust in an exhibit together with "with busts of Pharaoh, Herod, Hitler, Stalin, Mao Zedong, Goebbels, Pol Pot, and Dr. Mengle," in order to "put her in proper historical context with the infamous and evil figures who committed genocide."<ref>[http://www1.cbn.com/cbnnews/us/2015/August/Smithsonian-Wont-Remove-Bust-of-Margaret-Sanger Smithsonian Won't Remove Bust of Margaret Sanger], [[Christian Broadcasting Network]]</ref>

A request was sent to the [[Smithsonian Institution]] for a bust of Sanger currently on display in a "Struggle for Justice" exhibit.  The bust was a gift of Cordelia Scaife May.<ref>[http://collections.si.edu/search/tag/tagDoc.htm?recordID=npg_NPG.72.70 NPG.72.70]</ref>  The request, led by a group of black pastors, noted that Sanger has previously spoke in front of the KKK, as well as a long line of racist viewpoints.<ref>[https://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/penny-starr/smithsonian-refuses-request-black-pastors-remove-bust-eugenicist-planned Smithsonian Refuses Request from Black Pastors to Remove Bust of Eugenicist Planned Parenthood Founder]</ref><ref>[https://www.lifenews.com/2015/08/22/smithsonian-refuses-to-remove-margaret-sanger-statue-we-dont-care-she-was-a-eugenicist/ Smithsonian Refuses to Remove Margaret Sanger Statue: We Don’t Care She Was a Eugenicist], [[LifeNews.com]]</ref><ref>[http://time.com/4013069/planned-parenthood-margaret-sanger-national-portrait-gallery/ Conservatives Want Bust of Planned Parenthood Founder Removed From National Portrait Gallery], [[Time magazine]]</ref>  One reason the Smithsonian refused the request was because of her role in Women's rights.  The pastors noted that it would make more sense to place the bust in an exhibit together with "with busts of Pharaoh, Herod, Hitler, Stalin, Mao Zedong, Goebbels, Pol Pot, and Dr. Mengle," in order to "put her in proper historical context with the infamous and evil figures who committed genocide."<ref>[http://www1.cbn.com/cbnnews/us/2015/August/Smithsonian-Wont-Remove-Bust-of-Margaret-Sanger Smithsonian Won't Remove Bust of Margaret Sanger], [[Christian Broadcasting Network]]</ref>

Overshadowed by her well known activism in the arena of birth control and the organization [[Planned Parenthood]], is Sanger's support for [[Euthanasia]].  During the 1950s, Sanger was a member of the advisory council for the Euthanasia Society of America.<ref>[http://liveactionnews.org/legacy-of-death-abortion-eugenics-euthanasia-groups-shared-board-members/ Legacy of death: Abortion, eugenics, euthanasia groups shared board members], [[Live Action]]</ref>

Overshadowed by her well known activism in the arena of birth control and the organization [[Planned Parenthood]], is Sanger's support for [[Euthanasia]].  During the 1950s, Sanger was a member of the advisory council for the Euthanasia Society of America.<ref>[http://liveactionnews.org/legacy-of-death-abortion-eugenics-euthanasia-groups-shared-board-members/ Legacy of death: Abortion, eugenics, euthanasia groups shared board members], [[Live Action]]</ref>

On April 20, 2016, [[United States Department of the Treasury|US Treasury]] secretary James Lew announced that [[Harriet Tubman]] would replace [[Andrew Jackson]] on the front of the $20 bill,<ref>[http://www.politico.com/story/2016/04/treasurys-lew-to-announce-hamilton-to-stay-on-10-bill-222204 Tubman replacing Jackson on the $20, Hamilton spared]</ref> for which Margaret Sanger was a contender.<ref>[http://www.womenon20s.org/margaret_sanger Women on 20's]</ref>

On April 20, 2016, [[United States Department of the Treasury|US Treasury]] secretary James Lew announced that [[Harriet Tubman]] would replace [[Andrew Jackson]] on the front of the $20 bill,<ref>[https://www.politico.com/story/2016/04/treasurys-lew-to-announce-hamilton-to-stay-on-10-bill-222204 Tubman replacing Jackson on the $20, Hamilton spared]</ref> for which Margaret Sanger was a contender.<ref>[http://www.womenon20s.org/margaret_sanger Women on 20's]</ref>

==Quotes==

==Quotes==

* "Before eugenists and others who are laboring for racial betterment can succeed, they must first clear the way for Birth Control. Like the advocates of Birth Control, the eugenists, for instance, are seeking to assist the [[race]] toward the elimination of the unfit. Both are seeking a single end but they lay emphasis upon different methods."<ref>[http://muse.jhu.edu/article/210158 Eugenics, Race, and Margaret Sanger Revisited: Reproductive Freedom for All?]</ref><ref>[https://www.nyu.edu/projects/sanger/webedition/app/documents/show.php?sangerDoc=143449.xml Birth Control and Racial Betterment], by Margaret Sanger</ref>

* "Before eugenists and others who are laboring for racial betterment can succeed, they must first clear the way for Birth Control. Like the advocates of Birth Control, the eugenists, for instance, are seeking to assist the [[race]] toward the elimination of the unfit. Both are seeking a single end but they lay emphasis upon different methods."<ref>[http://muse.jhu.edu/article/210158 Eugenics, Race, and Margaret Sanger Revisited: Reproductive Freedom for All?]</ref><ref>[https://www.nyu.edu/projects/sanger/webedition/app/documents/show.php?sangerDoc=143449.xml Birth Control and Racial Betterment], by Margaret Sanger</ref>

* "Organized charity is itself the symptom of a malignant social disease. Those vast complex, interrelated organizations aiming to control and to diminish the spread of misery and destitution and all the menacing evils that spring out of this sinisterly fertile soil, are the surest sign that our civilization has bred, is breeding and is perpetuating constantly increasing numbers of defectives, delinquents and dependents. My criticism therefore, is not directed at the ‘failure’ of philanthropy, but rather at its success" - Margaret Sanger, ''The Pivot of Civilization'' [NY: Brentano's, 1922], (p.&nbsp;108).<ref>http://www.worldwideschool.org/library/books/socl/socialconcerns/ThePivotofCivilization/chap6.html</ref>   

* "Organized charity is itself the symptom of a malignant social disease. Those vast complex, interrelated organizations aiming to control and to diminish the spread of misery and destitution and all the menacing evils that spring out of this sinisterly fertile soil, are the surest sign that our civilization has bred, is breeding and is perpetuating constantly increasing numbers of defectives, delinquents and dependents. My criticism therefore, is not directed at the ‘failure’ of philanthropy, but rather at its success" - Margaret Sanger, ''The Pivot of Civilization'' [NY: Brentano's, 1922], (p.&nbsp;108).<ref>http://www.worldwideschool.org/library/books/socl/socialconcerns/ThePivotofCivilization/chap6.html</ref>   

* "To each group we explained what contraception was; that [[abortion]] was the wrong way—no matter how early it was performed it was taking life; that contraception was the better way, the safer way—it took a little time, a little trouble, but was well worth while in the long run, because life had not yet begun."<ref>Margaret Sanger, ''An Autobiography'' (1938) [http://books.google.com/books?id=iy0oWya9H_kC&pg=PA217&lpg=PA217&dq=%22contraception+was+the+better+way,%22&source=bl&ots=pugltGh9in&sig=fjqYq0g5zfxcN9Nvvgx0aePtRmU&hl=en&ei=pnqCSqy0L43WsgPR36SdAg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=4#v=onepage&q=%22contraception%20was%20the%20better%20way%2C%22&f=false p. 217 online]</ref>

* "To each group we explained what contraception was; that [[abortion]] was the wrong way—no matter how early it was performed it was taking life; that contraception was the better way, the safer way—it took a little time, a little trouble, but was well worth while in the long run, because life had not yet begun."<ref>Margaret Sanger, ''An Autobiography'' (1938) [https://books.google.com/books?id=iy0oWya9H_kC&pg=PA217&lpg=PA217&dq=%22contraception+was+the+better+way,%22&source=bl&ots=pugltGh9in&sig=fjqYq0g5zfxcN9Nvvgx0aePtRmU&hl=en&ei=pnqCSqy0L43WsgPR36SdAg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=4#v=onepage&q=%22contraception%20was%20the%20better%20way%2C%22&f=false p. 217 online]</ref>

* "Of all lands China needed knowledge of how to control her numbers; the incessant fertility of her millions spread like a plague. Well-wishing foreigners who had gone there with their own moral codes to save her babies from infanticide, her people from pestilence, had actually increased her problem. To contribute to famine funds and the support of missions was like trying to sweep back the sea with a broom." <ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=IQKAfF_ycEoC&pg=PA347 The Autobiography of Margaret Sanger], p. 347</ref>

* "Of all lands China needed knowledge of how to control her numbers; the incessant fertility of her millions spread like a plague. Well-wishing foreigners who had gone there with their own moral codes to save her babies from infanticide, her people from pestilence, had actually increased her problem. To contribute to famine funds and the support of missions was like trying to sweep back the sea with a broom." <ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=IQKAfF_ycEoC&pg=PA347 The Autobiography of Margaret Sanger], p. 347</ref>

* "The lack of balance between the birth of the "unfit" and the "fit," admittedly greatest present menace to civilization, never be rectified by the inauguration of cradle competition between these two classes. The example of the inferior classes, the fertility of the feeble-minded, the mentally defective, the poverty-stricken, should not be held up emulation to the mentally and physically fit, and therefore less fertile, parents of the educated and well-to-do-classes. On the contrary, the most urgent problem today is how to limit and discourage the over fertility of the mentally and physically defective. Possibly drastic and Spartan methods may be forced upon American society if it continues complacently to encourage the chance and chaotic breeding that has resulted from our stupid, cruel sentimentalism."<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=jhpLAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA25 The Pivot of Civilization], p. 25</ref>

* "The lack of balance between the birth of the "unfit" and the "fit," admittedly greatest present menace to civilization, never be rectified by the inauguration of cradle competition between these two classes. The example of the inferior classes, the fertility of the feeble-minded, the mentally defective, the poverty-stricken, should not be held up emulation to the mentally and physically fit, and therefore less fertile, parents of the educated and well-to-do-classes. On the contrary, the most urgent problem today is how to limit and discourage the over fertility of the mentally and physically defective. Possibly drastic and Spartan methods may be forced upon American society if it continues complacently to encourage the chance and chaotic breeding that has resulted from our stupid, cruel sentimentalism."<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=jhpLAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA25 The Pivot of Civilization], p. 25</ref>

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==See also==

==See also==