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'''Margaret Sanger''' (09-14-1879 09-06-1966) founded what became [[Planned Parenthood]] (then the ''American Birth Control League''), coined the term "[[birth control]]", publically discoursed for [[eugenics]], the extermination of the African Race, and was a member of both the [[American Eugenics Society]] and the [[English Eugenics Society]].<ref>http://www.all.org/abac/contents.txt</ref><ref>http://www.lifeadvocate.org/1_98/feature.htm</ref>

'''Margaret Sanger''' (born September 14, 1879 and died September 6, 1966) was a noted [[United States of America|American]] [[birth control]], [[eugenics]], and [[feminism|feminist]] activist. She coined the term "birth control" and founded the [[American Birth Control League]] (which was the foundation for modern-day [[Planned Parenthood]]. In particular, she campained for eugenic controls to enforce what she called "race hygeine", and was a member of the [[American Eugenics Society]] and the [[English Eugenics Society]].<ref>http://www.all.org/abac/contents.txt</ref><ref>http://www.lifeadvocate.org/1_98/feature.htm</ref>

 

==Statements by Margaret Sanger==

==Statements by Margaret Sanger==

"The mass of significant Negroes, particularly in the South, still breed carelessly and disastrously, with the result that the increase among Negroes, even more than among whites, is [in] that portion of the population least intelligent and fit and least able to rear children properly." - Margaret Sanger - The "Negro Project" quoting [[W.E.B. DuBois]] with the omission of one word <ref>http://www.jstor.org/view/00147354/di975884/97p14282/1?frame=noframe&userID=80cdbf34@buffalo.edu/01cce4406300501bbf062&dpi=3&config=jstor</ref>  

"The mass of significant Negroes, particularly in the South, still breed carelessly and disastrously, with the result that the increase among Negroes, even more than among whites, is [in] that portion of the population least intelligent and fit and least able to rear children properly." - Margaret Sanger - The "Negro Project" quoting [[W.E.B. DuBois]] with the omission of one word <ref>http://www.jstor.org/view/00147354/di975884/97p14282/1?frame=noframe&userID=80cdbf34@buffalo.edu/01cce4406300501bbf062&dpi=3&config=jstor</ref>  

"Before eugenicists and others who are laboring for racial betterment can succeed,  

"Before eugenicists and others who are laboring for racial betterment can succeed,  

the eugenicists, 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. …"  

the eugenicists, 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/journals/hypatia/v022/22.2sanger.html</ref>

<ref>http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/hypatia/v022/22.2sanger.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. 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. 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><Sanger, Margaret (1938). An Autobiography. New York, NY: Cooper Square Press></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><Sanger, Margaret (1938). An Autobiography. New York, NY: Cooper Square Press></ref>

In Margaret Sanger's book  ''The Pivot of Civilization''  she also called for the elimination of "human weeds," for the segregation of "morons, misfits, and maladjusted,"  and for the sterilization of "genetically inferior races." <ref>http://www.ewtn.com/library/prolife/pp04a.txt</ref>

In Margaret Sanger's book  ''The Pivot of Civilization''  she also called for the elimination of "human weeds," for the segregation of "morons, misfits, and maladjusted,"  and for the sterilization of "genetically inferior races." <ref>http://www.ewtn.com/library/prolife/pp04a.txt</ref>

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