Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quote Share via Email Print this Page [1-14] of 14 Social Engineering quotesSocial Engineering QuotesSocial Engineering If our social conditions curtail manhood and womanhood, we must alter the social conditions. We must not go on quietly in a corner making men unmanly and women unwomanly, that they may fit into their filthy and slavish civilization.~ Gilbert Keith Chesterton Eugenics is … the most adequate and thorough avenue to the solution of racial, political and social problems.~ 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 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 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 The unbalance between the birth rate of the 'unfit' and the 'fit,' [is] the greatest present menace to civilization… the most urgent problem today is how to limit and discourage the over-fertility of the mentally and physically defective.~ Margaret Sanger The undeniably feeble-minded should, indeed, not only be discouraged but prevented from propagating their kind.~ Margaret Sanger We should hire three or four colored ministers, preferably with social-service backgrounds, and with engaging personalities. The most successful educational approach to the Negro is through a religious appeal. We don't want the word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population…~ Margaret Sanger [Our objective is] unlimited sexual gratification without the burden of unwanted children...~ Margaret Sanger As we celebrate the 100th birthday of Margaret Sanger, our outrageous and our courageous leader, we will probably find a number of areas in which we may find more about Margaret Sanger than we thought we wanted to know...~ Faye Wattleton Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print