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"Our failure to segregate morons who are increasing and multiplying ... demonstrates our foolhardy and extravagant sentimentalism ... [Philanthropists] encourage the healthier and more normal sections of the world to shoulder the burden of unthinking and indiscriminate fecundity of others; which brings with it, as I think the reader must agree, a dead weight of human waste. Instead of decreasing and aiming to eliminate the stocks that are most detrimental to the future of the race and the world, it tends to render them to a menacing degree dominant ... We are paying for, and even submitting to, the dictates of an ever-increasing, unceasingly spawning class of human beings who never should have been born at all." - Margaret Sanger. The Pivot of Civilization, 1922. Chapter on "The Cruelty of Charity," pages 116, 122, and 189. Swarthmore College Library edition.
| Quote Status: | Mixed Origins |
| Attributed to: | Margaret Sanger |
| Category: | Eugenics; Birth Control |
| Submitted By: | Edward L Winston |
Actual Details
Interesting how you can join together quotes separated by tens of pages, it really gives you the ability to create whatever context you want. So let's break them down:>> Our failure to segregate morons who are increasing and multiplying
This does not appear at all.
>> demonstrates our foolhardy and extravagant sentimentalism
This does not appear at all.
>> [Philanthropists] encourage the healthier and more normal sections of the world to shoulder the burden of unthinking and indiscriminate fecundity of others; which brings with it, as I think the reader must agree, a dead weight of human waste. Instead of decreasing and aiming to eliminate the stocks that are most detrimental to the future of the race and the world, it tends to render them to a menacing degree dominant
Prior to this she discusses women having 7 kids, and charities educating them on having an 8th rather than avoiding having an 8th all together, which is in reference to birth control.
She even goes on to say on page 119 "It is customary I believe, to defend philanthropy and charity upon the basis of the sanctity of human life. Yet recent events in the world reveal a curious contradiction in this respect. Human life is sacred as a general Christian principle [Sanger was Catholic BTW] until war is declared."
>> We are paying for, and even submitting to, the dictates of an ever-increasing, unceasingly spawning class of human beings who never should have been born at all
This quote doesn't appear at all, not even in Chapter 8 where page 189 is.
Source: [ http://library.lifedynamics.com/The%20Pivot%20of%20Civilization/Chapter%2005.pdf ]