“Margaret Sanger: Oh, John you do ask hard questions. I should think, that instead of being impractical, it is really very practical and intelligent and humane.”

One Minute News (1947), interview with British Pathé's John Parsons

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American birth control activist, educator and nurse 1879–1966

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