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06-09-2008, 02:11 PM

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Originally Posted by OKgrannie

The eugenicists of that time believed that the feebleminded should be forcibly sterilized, but Sanger disagreed with that. I disagree with forcibly sterilizing people, but agree that they should have the choice to do so. The quotes you cite have been lifted from context. Example:

Margaret Sanger Quotes

• A quote taken out of context: "We do not want word to get out that we want to exterminate the Negro population." (In the context, it's apparent that she didn't want such word to get out because such a characterization of her work was common -- and untrue. Then as now.) • When Sanger used terms like "racial betterment" she was generally referring to the human race, so in looking at quotes using such phrases, check the context before making assumptions. Her opinions of the disabled and immigrants -- opinions not attractive or politically correct today -- were often the source of such sentiments as "racial betterment."

On the disabled:

“Every single case of inherited defect, every malformed child, every congenitally tainted human being brought into this world is of infinite importance to that poor individual; but it is of scarcely less importance to the rest of us and to all of our children who must pay in one way or another for these biological and racial mistakes” (Pivot of Civilization, p. 274).

“No more children should be born when the parents, though healthy themselves, find that their children are physically or mentally defective” (Woman and the New Race [NY: Blue Ribbon Books, 1920], p. 89).

Birth control “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” (Ibid., p. 229).

Outta context my ass.