Margaret sanger

Inspiration for Activism! Worked as a visiting nurse in Henry Street Settlement. Fierce advocate for measures to improve the health of poor people. In 1912 she participated in labour action in tex…

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'We don’t want the word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population.'

Margaret Sanger has been lauded by some as a woman of valor, but a closer look reveals that Planned Parenthood’s audacious founder had some unsavory things to say about matters of race, birth control, and abortion. An outspoken eugenicist herself, Sanger consistently promoted racist ideals with a contemptuous attitude. Read on to learn why Planned […]

Oct. 16, 1916: Margaret Sanger opens America’s first family planning clinic

Helena Huntington Smith profiles Margaret Sanger, a pioneering advocate for access to birth control.

Jane Addams (1860-1935) Any down-on-his-luck person who's been helped by a social worker has Jane Addams to thank. In grimy late 19th c...

From its very inception, the mission of Planned Parenthood has been, in effect, to target, control and ultimately reduce vulnerable, “undesirable” populations.

Margaret Sanger quote #blacklivesmatter

Rev. Clenard H. Childress, Jr. discusses why Black leaders today need to denounce Planned Parenthood and it's founder, Magaret Sanger who was a White Supremacist.

Barbara Ortiz Howard and Susan Ades Stone are making headlines as they push to get a female on a U.S. banknote by 2020. They’ve created the non-profit Women on 20s and have chosen the 20 dollar bill as their target. Why the $20 bill you ask? They argue that the current face of the 20 […]

Quotes by Margaret Sanger, nurse and advocate of birth control at a time when it was largely illegal. Includes a list of debunked Sanger quotes.

It is apparent that nothing short of contraceptives can put an end to the horrors of abortion and infanticide. Margaret Sanger

Invaluable collection of Sanger's seminal, intelligent, and compassionate writings that encompass and depict the untold social impact of her life and work.

January 29, 1917: Three thousand people cheered Margaret Sanger's speech earlier tonight at Carnegie Hall, as she called for the repeal or overturning of Section 1142 of the New York State Penal Code and all similar statutes.

#feminism. Of course a woman has the right to be in control of her own body. It should go without saying right? Unfortunately we live in a world which degrades, discriminates and objectify women, and it has to stop.