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The first one isn't fake; she really said that.

I'd like to see a source for the second.

My mistake! I spoke too soon. Indeed she did say the first quote. Here's the full paragraph and link:

"Many, perhaps, will think it idle to go farther in demonstrating the immorality of large families, but since there is still an abundance of proof at hand, it may be offered for the sake of those who find difficulty in adjusting old-fashioned ideas to the facts. The most merciful thing that the large family does to one of its infant members is to kill it. The same factors which create the terrible infant mortality rate, and which swell the death rate of children between the ages of one and five, operate even more extensively to lower the health rate of the surviving members."

https://wwnorton.com/college/history/america-essential-learning/docs/MSanger-Woman_and_New_Race-1920.pdf

And here's a link to a Planned Parenthood "Fact Sheet" falsely claiming that "Sanger was making an ironic comment — not a prescriptive one" when the full quote and the paragraphs around it don't suggest an irony whatsoever.

https://www.plannedparenthood.org/files/8013/9611/6937/Opposition_Claims_About_Margaret_Sanger.pdf

Second is probably not exact, but the KKK would make her an honorary member in a flash:

https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/28171/did-margaret-sanger-say-colored-people-are-like-human-weeds-and-are-to-be-exter