"Her own words, Sanger pushed for a society that limited birth to those she deemed fit to have children."
"Well, I think the greatest sin in the world is bringing children into the world that have disease from their parents, that have no chance in the world to be a human being practically, delinquents, prisoners, all sorts of things just mocked when they're born."
"I personally believe in the sterilization of the feeble minded, the insane, and the syphilitic."
"The most urgent problem today is how to limit and discourage the overfertility of the mentally and physically defective. Many point to a 1923 New York Times interview as proof of Sanger's racist motives in which she referred to people as weeds, saying"
"It means the release and cultivation of the better racial elements in our society and the gradual suppression, elimination, and eventual extirpation of defective stocks, those human weeds which threaten the blooming of the finest flowers of American civilization."
"Sanger once shared her vision"
Speaker 0: Her own words, Sanger pushed for a society that limited birth to those she deemed fit to have children.
Speaker 1: Well, I think the greatest sin in the world is bringing children into the world that have disease from their parents, that have no chance in the world to be a human being practically, delinquents, prisoners, all sorts of things just mocked when they're born.
Speaker 0: In 1916, Sanger opened the country's first birth control clinic. As a member of the American Eugenics Society, she advocated improving the genetic composition of humans through controlled reproduction of different races and classes. She often wrote about the issue in the journal she founded called the birth control review. In 1919, writing
Speaker 2: I personally believe in the sterilization of the feeble minded, the insane, and the syphilitic.
Speaker 0: The most urgent problem today is how to limit and discourage the overfertility of the mentally and physically defective. Many point to a 1923 New York Times interview as proof of Sanger's racist motives in which she referred to people as weeds, saying
Speaker 2: It means the release and cultivation of the better racial elements in our society and the gradual suppression, elimination, and eventual extirpation of defective stocks, those human weeds which threaten the blooming of the finest flowers of American civilization.
Speaker 3: She talked about the need for race betterment through through controlling these weeds. Basically, undesirable people.
Speaker 0: In 1939, after opening another clinic in Harlem, the birth control activist launched the Negro Project, an initiative supported by black leaders such as civil rights activist WEB Dubois. Critics claim the program used the pretense of better health and family planning for poor blacks in the South as an attempt to limit the black race. Ludwig says some on the left grapple with Sanger's past and how to interpret her legacy.
Speaker 3: They know when she writes about human weeds, they they know that it's that it's it's propulsive. They know it's disgusting. The left will never abandon Margaret Sanger because if they do, the she's the foundation of so many of their views.
Speaker 0: Sanger once shared her vision
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