The Truth About Margaret Sanger
"I accepted an invitation to talk to the women's branch of the Ku Klux Klan...I saw through the door dim figures parading with banners and illuminated crosses...I was escorted to the platform, was introduced, and began to speak...In the end, through simple illustrations I believed I had accomplished my purpose. A dozen invitations to speak to similar groups were proffered." (Margaret Sanger: An Autobiography, P.366)
We really don't need to consult Snopes, the internet Urban Legend Reference Page, to answer the question, "Was Planned Parenthood Founder Margaret Sanger really a keynote speaker at a Ku Klux Klan Rally?"
This is an easy one.
Just turn to page 366 of the Margaret Sanger's own autobiography, Margaret Sanger: An Autobiography and read the following excerpt:
I accepted an invitation to talk to the women's branch of the Ku Klux Klan...I saw through the door dim figures parading with banners and illuminated crosses...I was escorted to the platform, was introduced, and began to speak...In the end, through simple illustrations I believed I had accomplished my purpose. A dozen invitations to speak to similar groups were proffered. (Margaret Sanger: An Autobiography, P.366)
History. It’s disposable. How often do we use it to bolster a cause and then quickly discard it when its inconvenient truths call that effort into question? March is Women’s History Month. Americans celebrate the courage and tenacity of those who’ve made the world a better place. We should take the opportunity to pause and intentionally look closer at the totality of these women’s lives. Understanding their motivation, what sustained their passion, and how such indelible marks along the human timeline have been made, is simply powerful.
Here is a tale of two women with amazingly similar beginnings. I’ll allow history to speak for itself so you can see where their chosen journeys have brought them.
My mother, Andrea Bomberger, grew up poor. She had an alcoholic father who was verbally and emotionally abusive to her mother. The marriage was dysfunctional, to say the least, and it put a young girl in a situation of temporary abandonment at the age of five. While her parents split, Andrea was placed in a faith-based home for children called Christ’s Home in Paradise. For nearly a year as her parents tried to sort out their tumultuous relationship, she became, in essence, an orphan. Although Andrea’s parents would visit her separately, at least she had visitors. There was one girl in particular who suffered with physical deformities and for the entire duration never had one visitor. She never had anyone to hug, hold, or tell her that she was loved.
1. God never allows us to be tempted beyond our strength, but will always give us the grace which we need in order to resist. “God is faithful,” St. Paul writes, “and will not permit you to be tempted beyond your strength, but with the temptation will always give you a way out that you may be able to bear it.” (Cor. 10:13)
The man who is so discourag...ed by frequent falls that he surrenders to temptation and resigns himself to the slavery of sin as if there were no other way out, is making a fatal mistake. God is infinitely good and merciful and loves us all, even those who are sinners. Remember the parable of the Prodigal Son and of the lost sheep. How could our heavenly Father abandon us and not give us the strength to resist evil?
If we are discouraged, let us ask God's help, for He loves us and knows how weak we are. “He knows how we are formed.” (Ps. 102:14) It is a favourite trick of the devil to persuade us that nothing can help us. Let us cast aside all thoughts of discouragement, therefore, and arm ourselves with the necessary spiritual weapons. With humility, perseverance, and the grace of God, we are sure to triumph.
2. The masters of the spiritual life suggest various ways of combating temptation. As St. Alphonsus de' Liguori points out, however, “the first way is absolutely essential, and that is to pray to God for the light and strength to conquer. Without prayer it is impossible to overcome temptation, whereas with prayer we are sure of victory.” (Al Servizio Divino, p. 11, c. 6)
The reason is obvious. Prayer is not simply a verbal address to Almighty God, but is an elevation of the mind and heart, a conversation with God. Let us pray, therefore, with confidence and with love.
3. Jesus Himself commands us to do this. “Watch and pray that you may not enter into temptation.” (Mt. 26:41) Temptation against chastity in particular can only be conquered by prayer. There must be no hesitation, but an immediate recourse to God as soon as the temptation is experienced.
“Slay the enemy while it is small,”' recommends St. Jerome. When a lion is small, it is easily killed, but if we wait for it to grow up, it will be more likely to kill us instead. It is the same with temptation. St. Francis de Sales tells us that we should imitate the little children who fly to the arms of their father and mother as soon as they spy a wolf. We should fly to Jesus and Mary for protection.
As long as temptation lasts we should persevere in prayer.
Most of us, myself included, will live our entire lives and never be invited to
speak at a single Ku Klux Klan Rally. And yet, Margaret Sanger, the foundress
of Planned Parenthood, received at least 13 such invitations. Would someone from Planned Parenthood please tell us why Margaret Sanger was so in demand on the KKK speaking circuit?
Six Quotes Hint Why Marget Sanger Received “a dozen invitations” to speak at Ku Klux Klan Rallies
Margaret Sanger wrote about her Ku Klux Klan speech in her autobiography, “I accepted an invitation to talk to the women’s branch of the Ku Klux Klan…I saw through the door dim figures parading with banners and illuminated crosses…I was escorted to the platform, was introduced, and began to speak…In the end, through simple illustrations I believed I had accomplished my purpose. A dozen invitations to speak to similar groups were proffered.” (Margaret Sanger: An Autobiography, P.366)
Most of us, myself included, will live our entire lives and never be invited to speak at a single Ku Klux Klan Rally. And yet, Margaret Sanger, the foundress of Planned Parenthood, received at least 13 such invitations. Would someone from Planned Parenthood please tell us why Margaret Sanger was so in demand on the KKK speaking circuit?
1) “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’s December 19, 1939 letter to Dr. Clarence Gamble, 255 Adams Street, Milton, Massachusetts. Original source: Sophia Smith Collection, Smith College, North Hampton, Massachusetts. Also described in Linda Gordon’s Woman’s Body, Woman’s Right: A Social History of Birth Control in America. New York: Grossman Publishers, 1976.
2) “Eugenic sterilization is an urgent need … We must prevent multiplication of this bad stock.”
Margaret Sanger, April 1933 Birth Control Review.
3) “Our failure to segregate morons who are increasing and multiplying … demonstrates our foolhardy and extravagant sentimentalism … [Philanthropists] encourage the healthier and more normal sections of the world to shoulder the burden of unthinking and indiscriminate fecundity of others; which brings with it, as I think the reader must agree, a dead weight of human waste. Instead of decreasing and aiming to eliminate the stocks that are most detrimental to the future of the race and the world, it tends to render them to a menacing degree dominant … 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.” Margaret Sanger. The Pivot of Civilization, 1922. Chapter on “The Cruelty of Charity,” pages 116, 122, and 189. Swarthmore College Library edition.
4) “The most merciful thing that a family does to one of its infant members is to kill it.” Margaret Sanger (editor). The Woman Rebel, Volume I, Number 1. Reprinted in Woman and the New Race. New York: Brentanos Publishers, 1922.
5) “Birth control must lead ultimately to a cleaner race.” Margaret Sanger. Woman, Morality, and Birth Control. New York: New York Publishing Company, 1922. Page 12.
6) “Eugenics is … the most adequate and thorough avenue to the solution of racial, political and social problems.Margaret Sanger. “
The Eugenic Value of Birth Control Propaganda.” Birth Control Review, October 1921, page 5.
Margaret Sanger or Aryan Nation Leader Tom Metzger
First some background on our two quotable and notable contestants:
The ADL website provides the following profile of Tom Metzger, leader of White Aryan Resistance:
Tom Metzger, a television repairman from Fallbrook, California, has been a leader in organized bigotry for more than 25 years...He has been widely acknowledged as the principal mentor of the neo-Nazi skinhead movement since its appearance in America during the mid-1980s; in this connection, he attracted nationwide publicity in 1990, when an Oregon jury rendered a $12.5 million judgment against him and his son, John, for inciting the murder of an Ethiopian immigrant by skinheads. Today, although still paying the judgment, Metzger continues to cultivate a following through his monthly newspaper, WAR, White Aryan Resistance, a Web site, a telephone hotline, an e-mail newsletter, and other media.
Margaret Sanger,on the other hand, was the founder of Planned Parenthood. Recently voted one of Time Magazine’s 100 Leaders and Revolutionaries for the 20th Century, she is an inductee into the American Nurses Association Hall of Fame and the National Women's Hall of Fame. Gloria Steinem recently wrote as follows about Ms. Sanger in Time Magazine:
The movement she started will grow to be, a hundred years from now, the most influential of all time," predicted futurist and historian H.G. Wells in 1931. "When the history of our civilization is written, it will be a biological history, and Margaret Sanger will be its heroine."
One is a “heroine” of the 20th Century. The other a modern villain. So the following quiz concerning who said what ought to be easy. Right? Well try your luck and you may be surprised.
Margaret or Metzger?
1. “Negroes and Southern Europeans are mentally inferior to native born Americans”
2. “Since Christianity is in fact a slave religion, it is satirical at least to see the negro adopt a slave religion, after chattel slavery was ended. It simply underlines the fact that consciously or unconsciously, weak humans desire the status of sheep, no matter what they say.”
3. “More children from the fit, less from the unfit."
4. “...apply a stern and rigid policy of sterilization and segregation to that grade of population whose progeny is already tainted, or whose inheritance is such that objectionable traits may be transmitted to offspring.”
5. "Colored people are like human weeds and are to be exterminated."
6. “Covertly invest into non-White areas, invest in ghetto abortion clinics. Help to raise money for free abortions, in primarily non-White areas. Perhaps abortion clinic syndicates throughout North America, that primarily operate in non-White areas and receive tax support, should be promoted.”
7. "We do not want the word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population, and the minister is the man who can straighten that idea out if it ever occurs to any of their more rebellious members."
Extra Credit
8. Who was the guest speaker at a Ku Klux Klan rally in Silverlake, N. J.in 1926 and subsequently invited to speak at 12 more KKK rallies, Margaret or Metzger?
9. Which current Civil Rights Leader once stated the following:
"Abortion is black genocide...What happens to the mind of a person and the moral fabric of a nation , that accepts the aborting of the life of a baby without a pang of conscience?"
10. Who is a responsible for the deaths of millions of black Americans?
a. Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger.
b. White Aryan Resistance Leader Tom Meztger
c. Sanger and Metzger.
d. Neither
ANSWERS
1. Margaret Sanger
E. Drogin, Margaret Sanger: Father of Modern Society, CUL Publishers, 1980, Section 1, p. 18-24;
"I accepted an invitation to talk to the women's branch of the Ku Klux Klan...I
saw through the door dim figures parading with banners and illuminated
crosses...I was escorted to the platform, was introduced, and began to
speak...In the end, through simple illustrations I believed I had accomplished
my purpose. A dozen invitations to speak to similar groups were proffered."
(Margaret Sanger: An Autobiography, P.366)
Many Catholic high school summer reading lists these days are filled with lousy, vulgar books. What a pleasant alternative this book is. We would encourage one of our great national prolife organizations ( HLI , Priests for Life , ALL , National Right to Life ) to take the lead next year in contacting every Catholic high school in the country and request that some well-written prolife works like Presence of My Enemies be added to summer reading lists. And maybe add our all time favorite The Hand of God by Bernard Nathanson as well. Imagine the impact it could have!
We would love to review this tremendous book in full, but for now, this brief summary from a noted prolife leader will have to do:
Author Christopher Gladu's Presence of My Enemies is a brilliant, sobering story
of one young woman's struggle with an unexpected pregnancy. Gladu's masterful
writing style intertwines the characters' lives in both an intriguing and clever
design that keeps the reader riveted through each chapter. A must-read book that
is powerful, emotional and a gripping thriller!Debi Vinnedge, Executive Director Children of God for Life
We have long advocated spreading the Gospel of Life in as many artistic ways as possible. Gladu's amazing novel is certainly deserving of a wholehearted embrace from all in the prolife community. Go buy this book.
Aryan Nation Leader Tom Metzger advised his racist followers:
Covertly invest into non-White areas, invest in ghetto abortion clinics. Help
to raise money for free abortions, in primarily non-White areas. Perhaps
abortion clinic syndicates throughout North America, that primarily operate in
non-White areas and receive tax support, should be promoted.
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The abortion industry in New York City continues to prey on lower-income black women as almost 58 percent of pregnancies end in abortion for black women and children. The ratio of abortions for African-American women remained demographically highest in the city in 2011 while Asian and Pacific Island women had the lowest ratio at 18.2%.
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Why was Margaret sanger so popular with the Ku Klux Klan?
"I accepted an
invitation to talk to the women's branch of the Ku Klux Klan...I saw through the
door dim figures parading with banners and illuminated crosses...I was escorted
to the platform, was introduced, and began to speak...In the end, through simple
illustrations I believed I had accomplished my purpose. A dozen invitations to
speak to similar groups were proffered." (Margaret Sanger: An Autobiography,
P.366)
The Margaret Sanger autobiography informs that "I accepted an invitation to talk to the women's branch of the Ku Klux Klan...I saw through the door dim figures parading with banners and illuminated crosses...I was escorted to the platform, was introduced, and began to speak...In the end, through simple illustrations I believed I had accomplished my purpose. A dozen invitations to speak to similar groups were proffered."(Margaret Sanger: An Autobiography, P.366)
When I read this account eight years ago, I went on line to see how different artists and historians had handled this historic event. To my surprise, the event had been completely ignored. Something had to be done. The answer was the Margaret Sanger at the Ku Klux Klan Rally Art Contest. On January 16, 2005, our little art contest was born.
The 2009 winner was cartoonist Glenn McCoy at Town Hall for this incredible effort:
2008 Winner of the Margaret Sanger Art Contest was Rosary Films
2007 Winner of the Margaret Sanger Art Contest was Carrie Tomko
In a very close decision, Carrie Tomko won the 3rd Annual Margaret Sanger at the Klan Rally Art Contest. This was Carrie's winning entry:
Ms. Margaret and the Klan
There once was a woman named Margaret, Who made Negro babies her target. She longed to see less of them, Courted the death of them, Sanger, this woman named Margaret.
The wives of the Klansmen who meet Disguised in voluminous sheet, Gave her their attention At secret convention To learn of her childless technique.
Ms. Sanger was poorly impressed. Elementary they are she confessed. So childlike she found them, Dumbed her talk down for them, Sanger their arrogant guest.
The organization she ran Has snuffed out more blacks than the Klan, Yet people aren't frighted, But rather delighted, Embracing the Parenthood Planned.
The judges were greatly impressed by all the entries. Fellow judge, Jill Stanek, noted, "I could tell contestants worked hard to incorporate your theme. Very creative lot!" A very, very close second place (and winner of the reader poll!) was Chris Chan and his poweful short play, "The Killed Story."
Third place went to Bill Hailey and his terrific poem, "Such a Loving Margaret Sanger."Be sure to check out more of Bill's work (and link to it!) at his blog, "Bill's Big Blog" - - great stuff!
Thanks also went to The Catholic Caveman and the unknown writer of Haikus for their strong entries.
Special thanks to our 2007 Margaret Sanger Art Contest judges, Sean Dailey and Jill Stanek.
2006 Winner of the Margaret Sanger Art Contest was Consanescerion
2005 Winner of the Margaret Sanger Art Contest was Registered
Undoubtedly, during Margaret Sanger’s well documented trip to talk to the Ku Klux Klan, she must have assuredly spoken in very generous terms of African Americans.
How Does Planned Parenthood Celebrate Black History Month?
The following statement appears on Planned Parenthood’s website: “In observance of Black History Month, Planned Parenthood is celebrating the leadership of African Americans who led the fight for reproductive freedom.”
This is all very touching — that Planned Parenthood would take time from their busy schedule of killing black babies in their Abortion Clinics — to proclaim their appreciation for the African-American community. The Planned Parenthood website goes on to recognize the achievements of that famous advocate of nonviolence — the Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. as if Dr. King somehow posthumously approves the violent killings of the more than 1500 babies that will be destroyed in a black woman’s womb every day, a significant portion of which, are performed in Planned Parenthood’s abortion clinics.
The Planned Parenthood website also states that, “Planned Parenthood is committed to providing the highest level of care to people of all cultures and backgrounds.” This is indeed very generous of Planned Parenthood to lend a helping hand to one of Margaret Sanger’s favorite ethnic groups, as exemplified by Margaret Sanger’s famous “Negro Project”.
Undoubtedly, during Margaret Sanger’s well documented trip to talk to the Ku Klux Klan, she must have assuredly spoken in very generous terms of African Americans. However, the Planned Parenthood website that addresses Black History Month, mysteriously fails to …
My Lord Katie has a tremendous historical review of the life of Margaret Sanger. The well documented post- Margaret Sanger - Provider of Death - is a must read for anyone seeking to understand Planned Parenthood, its racist founder and the multi-billion abortion industry.
Here is abrief excerpt, but I encourage everyone to read the entire post at My Lord Katie:
Planned Parenthood is clearly misnamed; it should be called Planned Un-parenthood. It is clear that they are in the business of promoting their death-style. As we have shown in a previous posting, they run a multi-million dollar business killing babies. It is in their interest to promote illicit sex, so they can reap the monetary rewards to themselves from the results.
This is horrible enough, but the statistics on their war against blacks should be made public to everyone. Where is the outrage? Are they too protected by other godless politicians? I don’t know, but it is time for us all to do something.
And what about Margaret Sanger? Did her profligate ways make her happy? On the contrary, she ultimately lost everything before she died – love, happiness, satisfaction, family, and friends. She did not find fulfillment in her blatant racism, revolutionary socialism, sexual perversion and insatiable avarice. Without the peace that only God can give, she led a disturbed and unhappy life. In her later life she was very bitter and became fixated with drugs, alcohol, and the occult.
She truly loved death and her followers today agree with her that,
“The most merciful thing that a large family does to one of its infant members is to kill it.” (Women and the New Race, Eugenics Pub. Co.,1920). That’s what Planned Parenthood is all about.
Son Want to Wear Pink? Make Him Watch Brian's Song First
Across the country this weekend, football and soccer fields will be filled with boys wearing pink socks, pink shoe laces and pink wrist bands trying to emulate their heroes on TV - - and oh yeah, it has something to do with cancer.
Wouldn't it be great if before letting their boys wear pink for a cause they might not quite yet understand, dads across America required their boys to first watch the timeless movie Brian's Song ? Then when they pulled on those pink socks the next morning, the kid would know what he was truly trying to support.
Prolife leaders are asking that the first week of October be set aside to recall the fact that Margaret Sanger, the founder of Planned Parenthood, spoke at Ku Klux Klan rally. As stated in her autobiography:
"I accepted an invitation to talk to the women's branch of the Ku Klux Klan...I saw through the door dim figures parading with banners and illuminated crosses...I was escorted to the platform, was introduced, and began to speak...In the end, through simple illustrations I believed I had accomplished my purpose. A dozen invitations to speak to similar groups were proffered."
85 years after the Planned Parenthood foundress spoke at the KKK rally Planned Parenthood:
*A black baby is three times more likely to be murdered in the womb than a white baby.
*Twice as many African-Americans have died from abortion than have died from AIDS, accidents, violent crimes, cancer, and heart disease combined.
*Every three days, more African-Americans are killed by abortion than have been killed by the Ku Klux Klan in its entire history.
*Planned Parenthood operates the nation's largest chain of abortion clinics and almost 80 percent of its facilities are located in minority neighborhoods.
*About 13 percent of American women are black, but they submit to over 35 percent of the abortions.
Please help highlight this historic event by reposting, blogging, tweeting and even discussing it with friends all next week!
Tuesday, September 27, 2011
The racist founder of Planned Parenthood, Margaret Sanger, spoke at Ku Klux Klan rallies. Enough said. Why are our tax dollars still funding this out fit?
In her Autobiography, Margaret Sanger tells us "I accepted an invitation to talk to the women's branch of the Ku Klux Klan...I saw through the door dim figures parading with banners and illuminated crosses...I was escorted to the platform, was introduced, and began to speak...In the end, through simple illustrations I believed I had accomplished my purpose. A dozen invitations to speak to similar groups were proffered." (Margaret Sanger: An Autobiography, P.366)
How did Margaret Sanger wind up travelling the country speaking at Ku Klux Klan rallies?
How did an alcoholic and Demerol addict wind up creating, what is today, a multi-billion dollar organization responsible for more deaths than any war in history?
Why did Margaret Sanger have such a deep seeded hatred of blacks, the handicapped and the poor?
Not long ago, I bumped into a good friend who happens to be a highly regarded psychiatrist. I asked her how it was possible for one person to be as evil as Sanger, and she suggested to me that based on every she now knows about Margaret Sanger, she very likely suffered from a very serious mental illness. She rattled off a string of reasons a few of which I have researched and listed below. I am hoping my friend will in the near future publish her own findings on this topic, but for now, just thought I would put this out there for some discussion and scholarly review.
Looking back at Sanger now, it is quite evident that she suffered from acute mental illness.
According to the Mayo Clinic:
Signs and symptoms of mental illness can vary, depending on the particular disorder and other factors. Mental illness symptoms can affect emotions, thoughts and behaviors. Sometimes symptoms of a mental health disorder appear as physical problems.
Abnormal thinking, behavior and emotions
These types of mental illness signs and symptoms can include:
• Alcohol or drug abuse
• Excessive anger, hostility or violence
• Excessive fears or worries
• Withdrawal from friends and activities
• Sex drive changes
• Confused thinking
There are some excellent biographies on Margaret Sanger out there.
The more you study the life of Margaret Sanger and compare her conduct and behavior with the classic signs and symptoms of Mental Illness, the more convinced you will become that the Founder of Planned Parenthood was absolutely mentally ill.
First some background on our two quotable and notable contestants:
The ADL website provides the following profile of Tom Metzger, leader of
White Aryan Resistance:
Tom Metzger, a television repairman from Fallbrook, California,
has been a leader in organized bigotry for more than 25 years...He has been
widely acknowledged as the principal mentor of the neo-Nazi skinhead movement
since its appearance in America during the mid-1980s; in this connection, he
attracted nationwide publicity in 1990, when an Oregon jury rendered a $12.5
million judgment against him and his son, John, for inciting the murder of an
Ethiopian immigrant by skinheads. Today, although still paying the judgment,
Metzger continues to cultivate a following through his monthly newspaper, WAR
White Aryan Resistance, a Web site, a telephone hotline, an e-mail
newsletter, and other media.
Margaret Sanger, on the other hand, was the founder of Planned
Parenthood. Recently voted one of Time Magazine’s 100 Leaders &
Revolutionaries for the 20th Century, she is an inductee into the American
Nurses Association Hall of Fame and the National Women's Hall of Fame. Gloria
Steinem recently wrote as follows about Ms. Sanger in Time Magazine:
The movement she started will grow to be, a hundred years from now, the
most influential of all time," predicted futurist and historian H.G.
Wells in 1931. "When the history of our civilization is written, it will
be a biological history, and Margaret Sanger will be its heroine."
One is a “heroine” of the 20th Century. The other a modern villain. So
the following quiz concerning who said what ought to be easy. Right? Well try
your luck and you may be surprised.
Margaret or Metzger?
1. “Negroes and Southern Europeans are mentally inferior to native born
Americans”
2. “Since Christianity is in fact a slave religion, it is satirical at
least to see the negro adopt a slave religion, after chattel slavery was
ended. It simply underlines the fact that consciously or unconsciously, weak
humans desire the status of sheep, no matter what they say.”
3. “More children from the fit, less from the unfit."
4. “...apply a stern and rigid policy of sterilization and segregation
to that grade of population whose progeny is already tainted, or whose
inheritance is such that objectionable traits may be transmitted to
offspring.”
5. "Colored people are like human weeds and are to be
exterminated."
6. “Covertly invest into non-White areas, invest in ghetto abortion
clinics. Help to raise money for free abortions, in primarily non-White
areas. Perhaps abortion clinic syndicates throughout North America, that
primarily operate in non-White areas and receive tax support, should be
promoted.”
7. "We do not want the word to go out that we want to exterminate
the Negro population, and the minister is the man who can straighten that
idea out if it ever occurs to any of their more rebellious members."
Extra Credit
8. Who was the guest speaker at a Ku Klux Klan rally in Silverlake, N. J.
in 1926, Margaret or Metzger?
9. Which current Civil Rights Leader once stated the following:
"Abortion is black genocide...What happens to the mind of a person
and the moral fabric of a nation , that accepts the aborting of the life of
a baby without a pang of conscience?"
10. Who is a responsible for the deaths of millions of black Americans?
a. Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger.
b. White Aryan Resistance Leader Tom Meztger
c. Sanger and Metzger.
d. Neither
Answers
1. Sanger; E. Drogin, Margaret Sanger: Father of Modern Society, CUL
Publishers, 1980, Section 1, p. 18-24; http://www.abortionfacts.com/online_books/love_them_both/why_cant_we_love_them_both_42.asp
4. Sanger; A Plan For Peace, The Birth Control Review, April 1932, p. 106
http://www.abortionfacts.com/online_books/love_them_both/why_cant_we_love_them_both_42.asp
7. Sanger; 1. Linda Gordon, Woman's Body Woman's Right: Social History of
Birth Control in America (New York, Grossman Publishers, 1976) p.333. http://www.missionariestopreborn.com/ppNegro.htm
Six Quotes Hint Why Marget Sanger Received “a dozen invitations” to speak at Ku Klux Klan Rallies
Margaret Sanger wrote about her Ku Klux Klan speech in her autobiography, “I accepted an invitation to talk to the women’s branch of the Ku Klux Klan…I saw through the door dim figures parading with banners and illuminated crosses…I was escorted to the platform, was introduced, and began to speak…In the end, through simple illustrations I believed I had accomplished my purpose. A dozen invitations to speak to similar groups were proffered.” (Margaret Sanger: An Autobiography, P.366)
1) “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’s December 19, 1939 letter to Dr. Clarence Gamble, 255 Adams Street, Milton, Massachusetts. Original source: Sophia Smith Collection, Smith College, North Hampton, Massachusetts. Also described in Linda Gordon’s Woman’s Body, Woman’s Right: A Social History of Birth Control in America. New York: Grossman Publishers, 1976.
2) “Eugenic sterilization is an urgent need … We must prevent multiplication of this bad stock.”
Margaret Sanger, April 1933 Birth Control Review.
3) “Our failure to segregate morons who are increasing and multiplying … demonstrates our foolhardy and extravagant sentimentalism … [Philanthropists] encourage the healthier and more normal sections of the world to shoulder the burden of unthinking and indiscriminate fecundity of others; which brings with it, as I think the reader must agree, a dead weight of human waste. Instead of decreasing and aiming to eliminate the stocks that are most detrimental to the future of the race and the world, it tends to render them to a menacing degree dominant … 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.” Margaret Sanger. The Pivot of Civilization, 1922. Chapter on “The Cruelty of Charity,” pages 116, 122, and 189. Swarthmore College Library edition.
4) “The most merciful thing that a family does to one of its infant members is to kill it.” Margaret Sanger (editor). The Woman Rebel, Volume I, Number 1. Reprinted in Woman and the New Race. New York: Brentanos Publishers, 1922.
5) “Birth control must lead ultimately to a cleaner race.” Margaret Sanger. Woman, Morality, and Birth Control. New York: New York Publishing Company, 1922. Page 12.
6) “Eugenics is … the most adequate and thorough avenue to the solution of racial, political and social problems.Margaret Sanger. “
The Eugenic Value of Birth Control Propaganda.” Birth Control Review, October 1921, page 5.
The Margaret Sanger autobiography informs that "I accepted an invitation to talk to the women's branch of the Ku Klux Klan...I saw through the door dim figures parading with banners and illuminated crosses...I was escorted to the platform, was introduced, and began to speak...In the end, through simple illustrations I believed I had accomplished my purpose. A dozen invitations to speak to similar groups were proffered."(Margaret Sanger: An Autobiography, P.366)
When I read this account five years ago, I went on line to see how different artists and historians had handled this historic event. To my surprise, the event had been completely ignored. Something had to be done. The answer was the Margaret Sanger at the Ku Klux Klan Rally Art Contest. On January 16, 2005, our little art contest was born.
The 2009 winner was cartoonist Glenn McCoy at Town Hall for this incredible effort:
2008 Winner of the Margaret Sanger Art Contest was Rosary Films
2007 Winner of the Margaret Sanger Art Contest was Carrie Tomko
In a very close decision, Carrie Tomko won the 3rd Annual Margaret Sanger at the Klan Rally Art Contest. This was Carrie's winning entry:
Ms. Margaret and the Klan
There once was a woman named Margaret, Who made Negro babies her target. She longed to see less of them, Courted the death of them, Sanger, this woman named Margaret.
The wives of the Klansmen who meet Disguised in voluminous sheet, Gave her their attention At secret convention To learn of her childless technique.
Ms. Sanger was poorly impressed. Elementary they are she confessed. So childlike she found them, Dumbed her talk down for them, Sanger their arrogant guest.
The organization she ran Has snuffed out more blacks than the Klan, Yet people aren't frighted, But rather delighted, Embracing the Parenthood Planned.
The judges were greatly impressed by all the entries. Fellow judge, Jill Stanek, noted, "I could tell contestants worked hard to incorporate your theme. Very creative lot!" A very, very close second place (and winner of the reader poll!) was Chris Chan and his poweful short play, "The Killed Story."
Third place went to Bill Hailey and his terrific poem, "Such a Loving Margaret Sanger."Be sure to check out more of Bill's work (and link to it!) at his blog, "Bill's Big Blog" - - great stuff!
Thanks also went to The Catholic Caveman and the unknown writer of Haikus for their strong entries.
Special thanks to our 2007 Margaret Sanger Art Contest judges, Sean Dailey and Jill Stanek.
2006 Winner of the Margaret Sanger Art Contest was Consanescerion
