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Enthusiasm is a divine possession.
Woman must not accept; she must challenge.
We gather perfect fruit from perfect trees.
A free race cannot be born of slave mothers.
The basic freedom of the world is woman's freedom.
Blacks, soldiers, and Jews are a menace to the race.
Birth control must lead ultimately to a cleaner race.
Diplomats make it their business to conceal the facts.
Women must have economic and social equality with men.
I wanted each woman to be a rebellious Vashti, not an Esther.
Birth control is the means by which woman attains basic freedom.
No woman can call herself free who does not control her own body.
Couples should be required to submit applications to have a child.
Birth control is nothing more or less than...weeding out the unfit.
If we are really to live at all we must put our convictions into action.
The marriage bed is the most degenerative influence in the social order.
I accepted an invitation to talk to the women's branch of the Ku Klux Klan.
Negroes and Southern Europeans are mentally inferior to native born Americans.
Never be ashamed of passion. If you are strongly sexed, you are richly endowed.
She made people accept that women had the right to control their own destinies.
The procreation of [the diseased, the feeble-minded and paupers] should be stopped.
No woman shall have the legal right to bear a child without a permit for parenthood.
The most merciful thing a large family can do to one of its infant members is to kill it.
More children from the fit, less from the unfit -- that is the chief aim of birth control.
No woman can call herself free who cannot choose the time to be a mother or not as she sees fit.
As a cause becomes more and more successful, the ideas of the people engaged in it are bound to change.
Like begets like. We gather perfect fruit from perfect trees... . Abused soil brings forth stunted growths.
Many people are horrified at the idea of birth control. . . . It is simply the keynote of a new moral program.
It is apparent that nothing short of contraceptives can put an end to the horrors of abortion and infanticide.
Woman was and is condemned to a system under which the lawful rapes exceed the unlawful ones a million to one.
The undeniably feeble-minded should, indeed, not only be discouraged but prevented from propagating their kind.
Eugenics is ... the most adequate and thorough avenue to the solution of racial, political and social problems.
Give dysgenic groups [people with 'bad genes'] in our population their choice of segregation or [compulsory] sterilization.
The campaign for birth control is not merely of eugenic value, but is practically identical with the final aims of eugenics.
Diplomats make it their business to conceal the facts, and politicians violently denounce the politicians of other countries.
The real hope of the world lies in putting as painstaking thought into the business of mating as we do into other big businesses.
Our failure to segregate morons who are increasing and multiplying . . . demonstrates our foolhardy and extravagant sentimentalism.
A woman’s duty: To look the whole world in the face with a go-to-hell look in the eyes… to speak and act in defiance of convention.
On the contrary, the most urgent problem today is how to limit and discourage the over-fertility of the mentally and physically defective.
No more children should be born when the parents, though healthy themselves, find that their children are physically or mentally defective.
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.
I cannot refrain from saying that women must come to recognize there is some function of womanhood other than being a child-bearing machine.
Very early in my childhood I associated poverty, toil, unemployment, drunkenness, cruelty, quarreling, fighting, debts, jail with large families.
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.
Through sex, mankind may attain the great spiritual illumination which will transform the world, which will light up the only path to earthly paradise.
The greatest issue is to raise the question of birth control out of the gutter of obscenity ... into the light of intelligence and human understanding.
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 ocean could not be swept back with a broom. The truth was out. It illuminated the world. Motherhood no longer cringed before the relentless laws of fecundity.
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 contrary notwithstanding.
Against the State, against the Church, against the silence of the medical profession, against the whole machinery of dead institutions of the past, the woman of today arises.