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→‎Quotes: All of our problems are the result of overbreeding among the working class
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[[Image:Sanger 1961.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Margaret Sanger in 1961]]
 
[[Image:Sanger 1961.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Margaret Sanger in 1961]]
 
* "The most merciful thing that the large family does to one of its infant members is to kill it." <ref>{{hnb|Sanger|1920|p=63}}, see also [http://www.bartleby.com/1013/5.html Transcript.]</ref>
 
* "The most merciful thing that the large family does to one of its infant members is to kill it." <ref>{{hnb|Sanger|1920|p=63}}, see also [http://www.bartleby.com/1013/5.html Transcript.]</ref>
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* "All of our problems are the result of overbreeding among the working class, and if morality is to mean anything at all to us, we must regard all the changes which tend toward the uplift and survival of the human race as moral." <ref name=moralityandbirthcontrol />
 
* "Those least fit to carry on the race are increasing most rapidly. People who cannot support their own offspring are encouraged by Church and State to produce large families. Many of the children thus begotten are diseased or feebleminded; many become criminals. The burden of supporting these unwanted types has to be borne by the healthy elements of the nation. Funds that should be used to raise the standard of our civilization are diverted to the maintenance of those who should never have been born." - Statement of the [[American Birth Control League]]<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=IWCpZJOw0n8C&pg=PA207 Birth Control: What it Is, how it Works, what it Will Do]</ref>
 
* "Those least fit to carry on the race are increasing most rapidly. People who cannot support their own offspring are encouraged by Church and State to produce large families. Many of the children thus begotten are diseased or feebleminded; many become criminals. The burden of supporting these unwanted types has to be borne by the healthy elements of the nation. Funds that should be used to raise the standard of our civilization are diverted to the maintenance of those who should never have been born." - Statement of the [[American Birth Control League]]<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=IWCpZJOw0n8C&pg=PA207 Birth Control: What it Is, how it Works, what it Will Do]</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>
 
* "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>
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