21 Quotes by Margaret Sanger

Feb 13, 2018 / Written by: America Needs Fatima

These quotes by Margaret Sanger, founder of Planned Parenthood, reveal the wicked roots of the abortion movement and expose the twisted mindset behind the present-day Culture of Death. In her own words, Sanger peddles racism, eugenics, contraception, and abortion, while demonstrating a visceral hatred for children, parenthood, marriage and the Catholic Church.

If you want to open more eyes to the truth, please share these quotes far and wide. Only when the abortion agenda is fully rejected in our culture will America be ready to turn back to God.


1. "But for my view, I believe that there should be no more babies."
— Interview with John Parsons, 1947.

2. "The most merciful thing that the large family does to one of its infant members is to kill it."
— Woman and the New Race, Chapter 5, "The Wickedness of Creating Large Families." (1920).

3. "We don’t want the word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population."
— Letter to Dr. Clarence J. Gamble, December 10, 1939, p. 2.

4. I accepted an invitation to talk to the women's branch of the Ku Klux Klan... I was escorted to the platform, was introduced, and began to speak...In the end, through simple illustrations I believed I had accomplished my purpose. A dozen invitations to speak to similar groups were proffered.”
— Margaret Sanger, An Autobiography, published in 1938, p. 366.

5. “I think the greatest sin in the world is bringing children into the world, that have disease from their parents, that have no chance in the world to be a human being practically... Delinquents, prisoners, all sorts of things just marked when they’re born. That to me is the greatest sin—that people can—can commit.”
— Interview with journalist Mike Wallace, 1957.

6. “The most serious evil of our times is that of encouraging the bringing into the world of large families. The most immoral practice of the day is breeding too many children."
— Woman and the New Race, Chapter 5, The Wickedness of Creating Large Families. (1920).

7. “Eugenics without birth control seems to us a house builded [sic] upon the sands. It is at the mercy of the rising stream of the unfit.”
— The Birth Control Review, Birth Control and Racial Betterment (1919).

8. “As an advocate of birth control, I wish to take advantage of the present opportunity to point out that the unbalance between the birth rate of the ‘unfit’ and the ‘fit,’ admittedly the greatest present menace to civilization, can never be rectified by the inauguration of a cradle competition between these two classes.”
— The Birth Control Review, The Eugenic Value of Birth Control Propaganda, p. 5 (1921).

9. “The most urgent problem today is how to limit and discourage the over-fertility of the mentally and physically defective.”
— Ibid.

10. "No more children should be born when the parents, though healthy themselves, find that their children are physically or mentally defective.”
— The Birth Control Review, When Should A Woman Avoid Having Children? Nov. 1918, 6-7, Margaret Sanger Microfilm, S70:807.

11. “A marriage license shall in itself give husband and wife only the right to a common household and not the right to parenthood."
— America Needs a Code for Babies, Article 3, March 27, 1934.

12. "No woman shall have the legal right to bear a child, and no man shall have the right to become a father, without a permit for parenthood."
— Ibid, Article 4, March 27, 1934.

13. "Permits for parenthood shall be issued upon application by city, county, or state authorities to married couples, providing they are financially able to support the expected child, have the qualifications needed for proper rearing of the child, have no transmissible diseases, and, on the woman’s part, no medical indication that maternity is likely to result in death or permanent injury to health."
— Ibid, Article 5, March 27, 1934.

14. "No permit for parenthood shall be valid for more than one birth..."
— Ibid, Article 6, March 27, 1934.

15. "Apply a stern and rigid policy of sterilization and segregation to that grade of population whose progeny is tainted, or whose inheritance is such that objectionable traits may be transmitted to offspring."
— “My Way to Peace,” Jan. 17, 1932. Margaret Sanger Papers, Library of Congress 130:198.

16. "These two words [birth control] sum up our whole philosophy... It means the release and cultivation of the better elements in our society, and the gradual suppression, elimination and eventual extinction, of defective stocks -- those human weeds which threaten the blooming of the finest flowers of American civilization."
— High Lights in the History of Birth Control, Oct. 1923.

17. "Organized charity itself is the symptom of a malignant social disease..."
— The Pivot of Civilization, (1922).

18. "My own position is that the Catholic doctrine is illogical, not in accord with science, and definitely against social welfare and race improvement."
— The Pope's Position on Birth Control, Jan. 27, 1932.

19. “All of our problems are the result of overbreeding among the working class... Knowledge of birth control is essentially moral. Its general, though prudent, practice must lead to a higher individuality and ultimately to a cleaner race.”
— Morality and Birth Control, Feb./Mar. 1918.

20. Feeble-mindedness perpetuates itself from the ranks of those who are blandly indifferent to their racial responsibilities. And it is largely this type of humanity we are now drawing upon to populate our world for the generations to come. In this orgy of multiplying and replenishing the earth, this type is pari passu (“on equal footing”) multiplying and perpetuating those direst evils which we must, if civilization is to survive, extirpate by the very roots.”
— The Pivot of Civilization, 1922.

21. Birth control itself, often denounced as a violation of natural law, is nothing more or less than the facilitation of the process of weeding out the unfit, of preventing the birth of defectives or of those who will become defectives… If we are to make racial progress, this development of womanhood must precede motherhood in every individual woman.”
— Woman and the New Race, 1920.