Margaret Sanger

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Margaret Sanger was the founder of Planned Parenthood (PP) and a member of the American Eugenics Society. Sanger's beliefs (especially those related to eugenics), and her reasons for founding PP, are often considered controversial.

Quotes by

  • "Our failure to segregate morons who are increasing and multiplying... demonstrates our foolhardy and extravagant sentimentalism." -- possibly page 113 of The Pivot of Civilization, but Google Books won't let me access that page.
  • "it is a vicious cycle; ignorance breeds poverty and poverty breeds ignorance. There is only one cure for both, and that is to stop breeding these things. Stop bringing to birth, children whose inheritance cannot be one of health or intelligence. Stop bringing into the world children whose parents cannot provide for them." -- source?

Racism

This source, among many others, claims that Sanger was overtly racist; needs further checking -- but seems likely to be a distortion; note this, in which Coretta Scott King said upon accepting an award from PP for her late husband, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.:

I am proud tonight to say a word in behalf of your mentor, and the person who symbolizes the ideas of this organization, Margaret Sanger. Because of her dedication, her deep convictions, and for her suffering for what she believed in, I would like to say that I am proud to be a woman tonight.

Wikipedia also repeats a claim which was apparently posted on PP's web site at one time that Sanger's 1930 clinic in Harlem "was endorsed by ... the black community's elder statesman, W.E.B. Du Bois", but the source page is no longer available (including archive.org).

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