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Through sex, mankind may attain the great spiritual illumination which will transform the world, which will light up the only path to earthly paradise.

Margaret Sanger

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Margaret Sanger
Age: 86 †
Born: 1879
Born: September 14
Died: 1966
Died: September 6
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I wanted each woman to be a rebellious Vashti, not an Esther.
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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-that the wealth of individuals and of state is being diverted from the development and the progress of human expression and civilization.
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Very early in my childhood I associated poverty, toil, unemployment, drunkenness, cruelty, quarreling, fighting, debts, jail with large families.
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The undeniably feeble-minded should, indeed, not only be discouraged but prevented from propagating their kind.
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