Margaret Sanger Quotes

She made people accept that women had the right to control their own destinies.

... it has always been the depth of my belief, my faith, or my love that was the mainspring of my behavior. When once I believed in doing a thing, nothing could prevent my doing it.

As a cause becomes more and more successful, the ideas of the people engaged in it are bound to change.

Never be ashamed of passion. If you are strongly sexed, you are richly endowed.

Like begets like. We gather perfect fruit from perfect trees... . Abused soil brings forth stunted growths.

Birth control is the means by which woman attains basic freedom.

Many people are horrified at the idea of birth control. . . . It is simply the keynote of a new moral program.

Knowledge of birth control is essentially moral. Its general, though prudent, practice must lead to a higher individuality and ultimately to a cleaner race.

The procreation of [the diseased, the feeble-minded and paupers] should be stopped.

The first right of every child is to be wanted, to be desired, to be planned for with an intensity of love that gives it its title to being.

Woman must not accept she must challenge.

No woman can call herself free until she can choose consciously whether she will or will not be a mother.