There is only one reply to a request for a higher birthrate among the intelligent, and that is to ask the government to first take the burden of the insane and feeble-minded from your back. [Mandatory] sterilization for these is the answer.
Margaret SangerAs often as I have witnessed the miracle [birth], held the perfect creature with its tiny hands and feet, each time I have felt as though I were entering a cathedral with prayer in my heart.
Margaret SangerThe undeniably feeble-minded should, indeed, not only be discouraged but prevented from propagating their kind.
Margaret SangerLife has taught me one supreme lesson. This is that we mustโif we are really to live at all, if we are to enjoy the life more abundant promised by the Sages of Wisdomโwe must put our convictions into action. My remuneration has been that I have been privileged to act out my faith.
Margaret Sanger