Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quote Share via Email Print this Page [1-20] of 31 Eugenics quotesEugenics QuotesEugenics Next 20 quotes Frankly I had thought that at the time Roe was decided, there was concern about population growth and particularly growth in populations that we don’t want to have too many of.~ Ruth Bader Ginsburg The impact of all these restrictions is on poor women, because women who have means, if their state doesn’t provide access, another state does. ... It makes no sense as a national policy to promote birth only among poor people.~ Ruth Bader Ginsburg Occupation, curfew, settlements, closed military zone, administrative detention, siege, preventive strike, terrorist infrastructure, transfer. Their WAR destroys language. Speaks genocide with the words of a quiet technician. Occupation means that you cannot trust the OPEN SKY, or any open street near to the gates of snipers tower. It means that you cannot trust the future or have faith that the past will always be there. Occupation means you live out your live under military rule, and the constant threat of death, a quick death from a snipers bullet or a rocket attack from an M16. A crushing, suffocating death, a slow bleeding death in an ambulance stopped for hours at a checkpoint. A dark death, at a torture table in an Israeli prison: just a random arbitrary death. A cold calculated death: from a curable disease. A thousand small deaths while you watch your family dying around you. Occupation means that every day you die, and the world watches in silence. As if your death was nothing, as if you were a stone falling in the earth, water falling over water. And if you face all of this death and indifference and keep your humanity, and your love and your dignity and YOU refuse to surrender to their terror, then you know something of the courage that is Palestine.~ Suheir Hammad The demand that defective people be prevented from propagating equally defective offspring is a demand of the clearest reason and if systematically executed represents the most humane act of mankind.~ Adolf Hitler [U]nder the United States Constitution, effective population-control programs, even including laws requiring compulsory abortion, could be sustained under the existing Constitution if the population crisis became sufficiently severe to endanger the society.~ John Holdren Eugenics is … the most adequate and thorough avenue to the solution of racial, political and social problems.~ Margaret Sanger A free race cannot be born of slave mothers.~ Margaret Sanger Apply a stern and rigid policy of sterilization and segregation to that grade of population whose progeny is tainted, or whose inheritance is such that objectionable traits may be transmitted to offspring.~ Margaret Sanger As an advocate for birth control, I wish to take advantage of the present opportunity to point out that the unbalance between the birth rate of the 'unfit' and the 'fit', admittedly the greatest present menace to civilization, can never be rectified by the inauguration of a cradle competition between these two classes.~ Margaret Sanger Birth control itself, often denounced as a violation of natural law, is nothing more or less than the facilitation of the process of weeding out the unfit, of preventing the birth of defectives or of those who will become defectives.~ Margaret Sanger Birth control must lead ultimately to a cleaner race.~ Margaret Sanger Eugenic sterilization is an urgent need ... We must prevent multiplication of this bad stock.~ Margaret Sanger Give dysgenic groups [people with 'bad genes'] in our population their choice of segregation or [compulsory] sterilization.~ Margaret Sanger I accepted an invitation to talk to the women's branch of the Ku Klux Klan...I was escorted to the platform, was introduced, and began to speak...In the end, through simple illustrations, I believed I had accomplished my purpose. A dozen invitations to speak to similar groups were proffered.~ Margaret Sanger I think the greatest sin in the world is bringing children into the world, that have disease from their parents, they have no chance in the world to be a human being practically...Delinquents, prisoners, all sorts of things just marked when they're born. That to me is the greatest sin -- that people can -- can commit.~ Margaret Sanger No woman shall have the legal right to bear a child, and no man shall have the right to become a father, without a permit for parenthood.~ Margaret Sanger Our failure to segregate morons who are increasing and multiplying… a dead weight of human waste… an ever-increasing, unceasingly spawning class of human beings who never should have been born at all.~ Margaret Sanger The campaign for birth control is not merely of eugenic value, but is practically identical with the final aims of eugenics.~ Margaret Sanger The marriage bed is the most degenerative influence in the social order...~ Margaret Sanger The procreation of [the diseased, the feeble-minded and paupers] should be stopped.~ Margaret Sanger Next 20 quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print