Margaret Sanger:
Birth control is not contraception indiscriminately and thoughtlessly practiced. It means the release and cultivation of the better racial elements in our society, and the gradual suppression, elimination and eventual extirpation of defective stocks - those human weeds which threaten the blooming of the finest flowers of American civilization.
"Apostle of Birth Control Sees Cause Gaining Here", The New York Times, 1923-04-08, p. XII