“Eugenics aims to arouse the enthusiasm or the interest of the people in the welfare of the world fifteen or twenty generations in the future. On its negative side it shows us that we are paying for and even submitting to the dictates of an ever increasing, unceasingly spawning class of human beings who never should have been born at all—that the wealth of individuals and of states is being diverted from the development and the progress of human expression and civilization.”

—  Margaret Sanger

Source: The Pivot of Civilization, 1922, Chapter 8, "Dangers of Cradle Competition"

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American birth control activist, educator and nurse 1879–1966

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