Andrea Cohen: Margaret Sanger
Quotes
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Margaret Sanger : Eugenics means the release and cultivation of the better racial elements in our society, and the gradual suppression, elimination, and eventual extirpation of those human weeds which threaten the blooming of the finest flowers of American civilization. The most merciful thing that a large family does to one of its infant members, is to kill it.
Dinesh D'Souza : [narration] By Sanger's time, techniques of racial elimination like lynching had become taboo within the Democratic party, and so Sanger pioneered a different approach to bring about a similar result.
[to Jonah Goldberg]
Dinesh D'Souza : How would you describe Sanger's so called 'Negro project'?
Jonah Goldberg : The Negro project was to bring these birth control and other eugenic methods into the black community. She hired black ministers expressly to sell the idea.
Margaret Sanger : We don't want word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population. A minister is the man to straighten out that idea if it ever occurs to their more rebellious members.
Dinesh D'Souza : Surely today's Democratic party leaders would repudiate Margaret Sanger.
Hillary Clinton (archive footage) : I admire Margaret Sanger enormously. I am really in awe of her, and there are a lot of lessons that we can learn from her life and from the cause she launched and fought for and sacrificed for so bravely.
