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11 quotes by Margaret Sanger

Margaret Higgins Sanger (September 14, 1879 – September 6, 1966) was an American birth control activist, sex educator, and nurse. Sanger popularized the term birth control, opened the first birth control clinic in the United States, and established organizations that evolved into the Planned Parenthood Federation of America. Sanger's efforts contributed to several judicial cases that helped legalize contraception in the United States....
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No woman can call herself free who does not own and control her body. No woman can call herself free until she can choose consciously whether she... →

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Woman must not accept; she must challenge. She must not be awed by that which has been built up around her; she must reverence that woman in her... →

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When motherhood becomes the fruit of a deep yearning, not the result of ignorance or accident, its children will become the foundation of a new race.

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Woman must have her freedom, the fundamental freedom of choosing whether or not she will be a mother and how many children she will have. Regardless... →

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Against the State, against the Church, against the silence of the medical profession, against the whole machinery of dead institutions of the past... →

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A free race cannot be born of slave mothers.

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War, famine, poverty and oppression of the workers will continue while woman makes life cheap. They will cease only when she limits her... →

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She goes through the vale of death alone, each time a babe is born. As it is the right neither of man nor the state to coerce her into this ordeal... →

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Women of the working class, especially wage workers, should not have more than two children at most. The average working man can support no more and... →

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The submission of her body without love or desire is degrading to the woman's finer sensibility, all the marriage certificates on earth to the... →

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Diplomats make it their business to conceal the facts, and politicians violently denounce the politicians of other countries.

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