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Margaret Sanger lived from September 14, 1879 until September 6, 1966. Margaret Sanger was the founder of the American Birth Control League called [[Planned Parenthood]] today and was also a proponent of [[eugenics]], along with being 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 lived from September 14, 1879 until September 6, 1966. Margaret Sanger was the founder of the American Birth Control League called [[Planned Parenthood]] today and was also a proponent of [[eugenics]], along with being 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>

==Statements by founder Margaret Sanger==

==Statements by Margaret Sanger==

"The most merciful thing that the large family does to one of its infant members is to kill it." <ref>http://www.missionariestopreborn.com/ppMerciful.htm</ref>

"The most merciful thing that the large family does to one of its infant members is to kill it." <ref>http://www.bartleby.com/1013/5.html</ref>

"the masses of Negroes... particularly in the South, still breed carelessly and disastrously, with the result that the increase among Negroes, even more than among whites, is from that portion of the population least intelligent and fit..."<ref>http://www.jonentine.com/reviews/american_enterprises.htm</ref>

"the mass of signficant 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>  

 

"We do not want word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population, and the minister is the man who can straighten out that idea if it ever occurs to any of their more rebellious members." <ref>http://www.citizenreviewonline.org/special_issues/population/the_negro_project.htm</ref>

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

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

<ref>http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/hypatia/v022/22.2sanger.html</ref>

<ref>http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/hypatia/v022/22.2sanger.html</ref>

In Margaret Sanger's book  ''The Pivot of Civilization''  she 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> Sanger also stated in this book that organized attempts to assist the poor were the "surest sign that our civilization has bred, is breeding, and is perpetuating. . . defectives, delinquents, and dependents." <ref>http://www.ewtn.com/library/prolife/pp04a.txt</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>  

 

According to [[Michael Crichton]], Sanger was a supporter of [[eugenics]]. He quotes her as having said, "Fostering the good-for-nothing at the expense of the good is an extreme cruelty … there is no greater curse to posterity than that of bequeathing them an increasing population of imbeciles."  <ref>http://www.michaelcrichton.net/fear/index.html</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>

Crichton also writes that 'She spoke of the burden of caring for "this dead weight of human waste."' <ref>http://www.michaelcrichton.net/fear/index.html</ref>

==References==

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