[Dr. Thorne]

"We should hire three or four colored ministers, preferably with social-service backgrounds, and with engaging personalities. The most successful educational approach to the Negro is through a religious appeal. We don't want the word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population, and the minister is the man who can straighten out that idea if it ever occurs to any of their more rebellious members."

- Margaret Sanger in her December 19, 1939 letter to Dr. Clarence Gamble

[heartwood]

You know, you could interpret that statement of Sanger’s to mean, we don’t want the false notion to be spread about that we want to exterminate the Negro population.

English is such an ambiguous language.