“(We) are seeking to assist the white race toward the elimination of the unfit”

blacks
Falsely attributed to "Birth Control and Racial Betterment", Birth Control Review, February 1919 http://lifedynamics.com/app/uploads/2015/09/1919-02-February.pdf, by Steve Deace, " Planned Parenthood: The next relic from our racist past that must be purged http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/jul/13/steve-deace-planned-parenthood-the-next-relic-from/", Midwest Conservative (The Washington Times),
Actual quote: "Like the advocates of Birth Control, the eugenicists, for instance, are seeking to assist the race toward the elimination of the unfit."
Misattributed

Adopted from Wikiquote. Last update June 3, 2021. History

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Do you have more details about the quote "(We) are seeking to assist the white race toward the elimination of the unfit" by Margaret Sanger?
Margaret Sanger photo
Margaret Sanger 61
American birth control activist, educator and nurse 1879–1966

Related quotes

John Dalberg-Acton, 1st Baron Acton photo
Richard R. Wright Jr. photo
Andrei Sakharov photo
Andrei Sakharov photo

“The threat of hunger cannot be eliminated without the assistance of the developed countries, and this requires significant changes in their foreign and domestic policies.”

Andrei Sakharov (1921–1989) Soviet nuclear physicist and human rights activist

Progress, Coexistence and Intellectual Freedom (1968), Dangers, Hunger and Overpopulation (and the Psychology of Racism)

Ben Klassen photo
Warren G. Harding photo

“Let the black man vote when he is fit to vote; prohibit the white man voting when he is unfit to vote.”

Warren G. Harding (1865–1923) American politician, 29th president of the United States (in office from 1921 to 1923)

Speech at Birmingham, Alabama, published in the Birmingham Post (27 October 1921) quoted in Political Power in Birmingham, 1871-1921 (1977) by Carl V. Harris (1977) University of Tennessee Press, ISBN 087049211X.
1920s

George Lincoln Rockwell photo

“The nigger race is inherently inferior to the white race intellectually.”

George Lincoln Rockwell (1918–1967) American politician, founder of the American Nazi Party

1966, Interview with Alex Haley

Martin Luther King, Jr. photo

“Black Power seeks not understanding but conflict; addresses blacks and not whites; seeks to develop black support, but not white good will.”

James H. Cone (1938–2018) American theologian

Source: Black Theology and Black Power (1969), p. 16

Related topics