Sunday, March 11, 2007

Fasting Outside Planned Parenthood

A Truly Great Idea!

http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2007/mar/07030604.html

40 Days for Life - Praying and Fasting Outside Planned Parenthood for All of Lent
By John-Henry Westen KITSAP COUNTY, WA, March 6, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) - An ambitious and well-organized pro-life initiative bringing churches together to fast, pray and hold a vigil for the unborn outside Planned Parenthood all the 40 days of Lent has become the talk of the town and is changing hearts and minds.

Kitsap Human Life, an affiliate of Human Life of Washington has coordinated volunteers to keep vigil outside the abortion centre from 8am-8pm Monday through Saturday Feb. 21 through April 7.In addition to fasting, prayer and the vigil, the group has undertaken 40 days of outreach.

"The pro-life message will reach every household in Kitsap County through person-to-person outreach, announcements in church bulletins and the secular media, letters to the editor of local newspapers, a local newspaper advertising campaign, and through many other channels," explains the group's website.

The ongoing vigil has attracted the attention of the local paper, the Kitsap Sun.

In a Sunday full-page story dedicated to the vigil, Kitsap Human Life President Jack McGowan says, "People don't know what Planned Parenthood stands for." McGowan adds: "We're standing for those who can't stand for themselves."The program has also attracted the attention of national pro-life leadership.

Fr. Frank Pavone, National Director of Priests for Life, said that the ongoing 40-day vigil of demonstrators outside the offices of Planned Parenthood of Western Washington is doing more than raising awareness for the pro-life cause.

"What Kitsap Human Life is doing this Lenten season does more than make people aware that Planned Parenthood is the nation's largest abortion profiteer," said Fr. Pavone. "This vigil is a sign of what Lent means in the first place; self-sacrificing love to save the helpless. Groups across the nation should follow the example of Kitsap Human Life."

Andrew St.Hilaire, a pro-life supporter connected to Kitsap Human Life commented to LifeSiteNews.com on the remarkable potential of such endeavours.

"This is an excellent opportunity to gather support from Christians and pro-lifers across the board," he said. "I am strongly convinced that after a person's first or second time participating in prayer outside an abortion facility, they will be increasingly more active in the pro-life movement. It is on the streets in prayer outside the modern day concentration camps that people recognize for the first time the gravity of the situation. It is then they realize that action must be taken."

For more information see the Kitsap Human Life website at:http://www.kitsaphumanlife.org/

Black Genocide Video

Very Powerful:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_OXb1jcVt4g

Black Genocide: Margaret Sanger Would be Proud

Joee Blogs - a Catholic Londoner contains some great insights on Planned Parenthoods role in the Black Genocide.

Saturday, March 10, 2007

Must See Video

I hope all bloggers will cover this video:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VXMkLFpeGQQ

Genocide in America

Confessions of a Crazy Schoolmarm notes that:

Since 1973, abortion has reduced the black population by over 25 percent.

Twice as many African-Americans have died from abortion than have died fromAIDS, 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 andalmost 80 percent of its facilities are located in minority neighborhoods.

About 13 percent of American women are black, but theysubmit to over 35 percent of the abortions.

****

Sanger would be thoroughly pleased with the way her organization continues to run itself, and especially with the support it gets from Black leaders such as Senator Obama.

From the desk of Ted Mathis

From the desk of Ted Mathis is a must read blog.

More Proof that Abortionists are Racists brilliantly outlines the true intent of Planned Parenthood and its foundress Margaret Sanger.

African-American women make up only 13 percent of the United States population of women who are of child-bearing age, yet 37 percent of all abortions are performed on black women. The abortion rate among black women is more than three times higher than that of white women.

***

According to Gardner: “The abortion industry purposefully targets the African American community. The question is why? The abortion industry places abortion clinics in our minority and poor neighborhoods to “coax us” into thinking abortion is the best answer — the only answer to an unwanted or unplanned pregnancy — and we ask why?

“Black women don’t have to kill our children to have productive, successful lives. Instead of embracing the ‘right to kill’ our children in the name of reproductive choice, we should be working to ensure that each and every African American child is given every opportunity—to experience life—to prove herself/himself—to become part of our rich cultural heritage—to change the world—and maybe also to save it.”

Planned Parenthood's History of Racism

Jefferis Kent Peterson really nails Margaret Sanger, Planned Parenthood and their history of racism.

Monday, October 23, 2006

Margaret Sanger Photos

Margaret Sanger Photos

Early Submissions for Margaret Sanger at Ku Klux Klan Rally Art Contest

We have our first two entries for the second annual contest. Please post your comments concerning the artistic merits of these efforts. Personally, I am impressed and I am anticipating our most hotly contested race ever. This is from Consanescerion :

























Margaret Sanger photo






We also have our first poem from an entrant known as Slyman:



The Return to Silver Lake

Yo b!tches. Wear those hoods and sheets;

Let them revile you, while they love me;

No matta, for we are on the same team.

I will star in their movies;

You will be the villian;

No matta, for we are on the same team.

I will bribe their leaders and hood wink their clergy;

You in turn will suffer their political slings and arrows;

No matta, for we are on the same team.

They will welcome me into their schools and churches;

You will endure ridicule and witchhunts;

No matta, for we are on the same team.

Let them crown my a**, while they whoop yours;

No matta, for we are on the same team.

I will destroy their children and be praised;

You will scroll meaningless slurs in Hicksville, Kentucky - - and be public enemy #1;

No matta, for we are on the same team.

Let them hate you for your words and symbols;

While they love me for exterminating their future in the womb;

No matta, for we are on the same team.




Thanks guys and please keep the entires coming!

Tuesday, October 17, 2006

Margaret Sanger BlogSpot

Contest Marks 80th Anniversary of Margaret Sanger Speech at Ku Klux Klan Rally


It is time again for the Margaret Sanger at the Ku Klux Klan Rally Art Contest. This year's contest will highlight the 80th Anniversary of Margaret Sanger's speech to the the women's branch of the Silver Lake Ku Klux Klan. In her own 1938 autobiography, Margaret Sanger An Autobiography (1971 reprint by Dover Publications, Inc. of the 1938 original published by W.W. Norton & Company) Sanger indicates at pages 366-367 that the she got along quite well with members of a New Jersey branch of the Ku Klux Klan at her 1926 speech, eventually getting a "dozen invitations to speak to similar groups."




Participants in this year's contest are encouraged to commemorate Sanger at the Klan rally in unique artistic ways. Drawings, cartoons, historical novels, haiku, dance, plays, videos, paintings, quilts, rap, actual photos of Silver Lake, modern interpretations of Sanger speaking to the Klan, reenactments of the actual speech on YouTube, audio recordings of actual Sanger quotes she may have reused when speaking to the Klan - - there is no limit to the artistic ways this historic event can be commemorated.



The Big Abortion Industry still holds Margret Sanger out as an icon. Artwork is one more important ways to promote the truth about Margaret Sanger.



The rules for this year's contest are simple:



1) Send submissions to the Margaret Sanger Blogspot by providing a link in the comments section of this blog.



2) Submissions will be accepted for two months with a deadline of December 18, 2006.



3) There is no limit on the number of submissions that one person can make.



4) Nominations made be made on behalf of others.



5) The art can be any artistic expression (computer drawings, photography, music, poetry, video, audio recording, haiku) as long as it attempts to recreate Margaret Sanger at the KKK Rally.

6) 1st, 2nd and 3rd Place will be announced here on December 21. The comments and views of readers of this blog will be taken into consideration by the judges as well as the views of other respected bloggers.

7) It is our hope and prayer that this contest will be enthusiatically promoted by other bloggers who are free to promote this idea, borrow this idea, steal this idea, or do anything else they want in order to educate the public about the truth concerning Margaret Sanger.

Please encourage others to participate by e-mailing this information to other pro-lifers and bloggers!





Last Year's Winner from Registered at Freerepublic.com



Monday, September 25, 2006

Who Said It - - Margaret Sanger or Tom Metzger?


Take the QUIZ:


Who Said it? Planned Parenthood's Margaret Sanger or Aryan Nation's 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 &
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


http://www.abortionfacts.com/online_books/love_them_both/why_cant_we_love_them_both_42.asp

2. Metzger; http://www.africa2000.com/XNDX/xwarpo.htm

Metzger quote

3. Sanger; Birth Control Review, May 1919 (vol. III, no. 5); p.12. http://www.homekeepers.com/sanger.html

Sanger quote

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

http://www.abortionfacts.com/online_books/love_them_both/why_cant_we_love_them_both_42.asp

5. Sanger; http://blackgenocide.org/planned.html

http://blackgenocide.org/planned.html

6. Metzger; http://www.africa2000.com/XNDX/xwarpo.htm

Metzger quote

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

http://www.missionariestopreborn.com/ppNegro.htm

8. Sanger; (1) Emily Taft Douglas, Margaret Sanger; Pioneer of the Future,
Holt, Rinehart & Winston, N.Y., 1970, p. 192. http://www.scholarscorner.com/ethics/Anti-Semitism.html

Sanger Speaks at Klan Rally

9. Jesse Jackson; http://www.blackgenocide.org/

Rev. Jackson quote

10. a. Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger

Wednesday, March 16, 2005

The Winner: Registered at Freerepublic.com


In her 1938 autobiography, Margaret Sanger discusses her keynote address at a Silver Lake Ku Klux Klan Rally. In honor of this event, the Margaret Sanger Blogspot this year launched our 1st Annual Margaret Sanger at the Ku Klux Klan Rally Art Contest. This year's winner is Registered from Freerepublic.com. Congratulations, Registered:<p>




Margaret Sanger

Saturday, March 12, 2005

Margaret Sanger: Intellectual Moron




Margaret Sanger:

Intellectual Moron





Written by Mike S. Adams
Friday, September 24, 2004




         For months, readers have been asking me to do a profile of the life of Margaret Sanger, in order to expose the truth about an evil woman who has been protected for decades by the likes of Planned Parenthood, radical feminists, and various media elites.  If you just log onto www.biography.com after reading this editorial, you will see how far some are willing to go to whitewash her reputation, perhaps merely to preserve the ''credibility'' of the pro-abortion movement.


         Contrary to the wishes of some of my readers, I will not be writing a profile of Sanger’s life now or at any time in the future.  That is because my friend Dan Flynn has done it to perfection in his outstanding new book, Intellectual Morons.  If the 21-page chapter on Sanger were the only chapter in the book, Flynn’s latest (published by Crown Forum) would be well worth the purchase price.  Anyone interested in saving the life of the unborn simply cannot afford to miss Dan’s latest work.


        Flynn’s characterization of Sanger as a ''world-class liar'' who ''embraced tenets of Nazism, terrorism-and abortion for any reason at any time'' sounds harsh at first glance. Regardless, Flynn doesn’t sound harsh for long, because he provides quote after quote to substantiate his allegations.  Sometimes he quotes those whose articles Sanger published in The Woman Rebel (TWR).   For example, Flynn quotes a TWR article by Robert Thorpe, opining that ''lower forms of life must give place to higher forms,'' in the context of Thorpe’s call for the assassination of John D. Rockefeller.


        But, mostly, Flynn directly quotes Sanger, who, for example, advised women to avoid pregnancy by consuming quinine (a medicine used to fight malaria) and laxatives ''to assist with the menstrual flow.''  Apparently, in the twisted mind of Margaret Sanger, a bowel movement a day keeps the baby away.  Unfortunately for some unsuspecting women, Sanger’s advice didn’t flush out in the final analysis.


        Of course, laughing at Margaret Sanger becomes impossible when one gets into Sanger’s ideas about uprooting ''human weeds'' and establishing work camps for the ''unfit.''  In 1937, Sanger gave a speech on behalf of those ''too inarticulate to speak for themselves.'' In her speech, she said the following about blocking the procreation of so-called undesirables:



“(It) makes possible the spread of scientific knowledge of the elements of sound breeding. It makes possible the creation of a new race; a new generation brought into this world consciously conceived. It makes possible the breeding out of human weeds-the defective and criminal classes-(and) the breeding in of the clean, strong and fit instruments to carry the torch of human destiny.”


        Margaret Sanger’s following two-step plan (which she proposed to the U.S. Congress) to establish a ''Parliament of Population'' is also well-documented in the pages of Intellectual Morons:



1. To ''control the intake and output of morons (apparently excluding Sanger), mental defectives, epileptics.''
2. To ''take an inventory of the secondary group such as illiterates, paupers, unemployables, criminals, prostitutes, dope-fiends; classify them in special departments under government medical protection, and segregate them on farms…''


        Sanger then went on to summarize her plea to Congress by saying that ''fifteen or twenty millions of our population would then be organized into soldiers of defense-defending the unborn against their own disabilities.''


        Sanger also had a pretty negative view of Australian, Jewish, and Italian families.  She called aboriginal Australians ''the lowest known species of the human family, just a step higher than the chimpanzee in brain development.''  She said the following of the ''Jewish people and Italian families'':



“(They) are filling the insane asylums, (they) are filling the hospitals and filling our feeble-minded institutions, (they) are the ones the tax payers have to pay for the upkeep of, and they are increasing the budget of the State, the enormous expense of the State is increasing because of the multiplication of the unfit in this country and in the State.”


        Is it any wonder that Sanger spoke at a KKK rally in 1926?  Is it any wonder that she said that ''The most merciful thing that the large family does to one of its infant members is to kill it''?


        Dan Flynn tells the truth about Margaret Sanger.  And he does it with fairness.  He admits to at least one case where a quote of Sanger has been taken out of context by her enemies in order to accuse her of racism.  But he uses other quotes properly and honestly to show that the accusations are indeed founded.  He does not whitewash Sanger, nor does he smear her reputation unfairly because he disagrees with her politics.


        After you read the whitewashed account of Sanger’s life on www.biography.com, read the truth in Dan Flynn’s new book.  Then call your local Planned Parenthood office and ask the following questions: Are you proud that Margaret Sanger is your founder?  How many black babies do you abort every year?  Is an unborn baby a ''human weed'' or just a sub-human clump of cells?  And, finally, how can you look yourself in the mirror every day before you go to work?




About the Writer: Mike Adams is a professor at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington, and the author of the new book, "Welcome to the Ivory Tower of Babel." His website is at: http://www.DrAdams.org.





Friday, March 11, 2005

Who Was Margaret Sanger?

From the EWTN library:

Who Was Margaret Sanger?

Margaret Sanger, the founder of Planned Parenthood, was an
adulteress, racist and bigot, a supporter of Hitler's Nazi party, and
a believer in eugenics - the purification of a particular race of
people by selective breeding. Her magazines and journals were filled
with writings and articles by well-known eugenicists and members of
Hitler's Third Reich.

Thursday, March 10, 2005

KKK to Open Urban Family Planning Centers - Seeks Federal Funding

KKK to Open Urban Family Planning Centers - Seeks Federal Funding

Inspired by the groundbreaking work of Margaret Sanger, the Ku Klux
Klan announced plans to open up Family Planning Centers in six of
Americas largest urban areas. The clinics will offer free family
planning services to all minorities regardless of economic need. These
services will include abortion.


In a press release sent out last week, the Klan had high praise for
Planned Parenthood but promised to do even better:

According to http://www.blackgenocide.org/planned.html Planned
Parenthood currently has 78% of its clinics in minority communities.
Although blacks are only 12% of our population, they have 35% of the
abortions in America. These figures are great, but we believe we can
do better. But we tip our hit to Planned Parenthood and its foundress,
Margaret Sanger.

In 1939, Sanger who had once stated, "colored people are like human
weeds and are to be exterminated
," launched the Negro Project. The
Negro Project was an effort to dramatically reduce the number of
blacks in America through the use of birth control and sterilizations.
As reported by http://www.blackgenocide.org/negro03.html:



Prior to 1939, Sangers "outreach to the black community was largely
limited to her Harlem clinic and speaking at black churches." Her
vision for "the reproductive practices of black Americans" expanded
after the January 1939 merger of the Clinical Research Bureau and the
American Birth Control League to form the Birth Control Federation of
America. She selected Dr. Clarence J. Gamble, of the
soap-manufacturing company Procter and Gamble, to be the BCFA regional
director of the South.

Gamble wrote a memorandum in November 1939 entitled "Suggestions for
the Negro Project," in which he recognized that "black leaders might
regard birth control as an extermination plot. He suggested black
leaders to be placed in positions where it would appear they were in
charge. Yet Sangers reply reflects Gambles ambivalence about having
blacks in authoritative positions:

I note that you doubt it worthwhile to employ a full-time Negro
physician. It seems to me from my experience ; that, while the colored
Negroes have great respect for white doctors, they can get closer to
their own members and more or less lay their cards on the table, which
means their ignorance, superstitions and doubts. They do not do this
with white people and if we can train the Negro doctor at the clinic,
he can go among them with enthusiasm and ; knowledge, which ; will
have far-reaching results among the colored people.


Another Negro Project director lamented:


I wonder if Southern Darkies can ever be entrusted with … a
clinic. Our experience causes us to doubt their ability to work except
under white supervision.

Sanger knew blacks were religious people;and how useful ministers
would be to her project. She wrote in the same letter:


The ministers work is also important and he should be trained, perhaps
by the Federation as to our ideals and the goal that we hope to reach.


We do not want 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.


***

The Klan is obviously excited about its efforts to launch family planning clinics in Urban areas.

A Klan spokesman acknowledged off the record that its past efforts to
reduce the black population and had largely backfired: "Lynchings,
burning down churches and hangings created a lot of bad publicity for
the Klan in the past. We believe that by following in the foot steps
of Margaret Sanger, the Negro Project, and Planned Parenthood, we can
dramatically reduce the number of Negroes in America while at the same
time acting in a politically correct manner. We will probably even be
able to obtain federal tax dollars to finance our efforts."

Wednesday, March 09, 2005

Margaret Sanger Discusses Her Speech at Klu Klux Klan Rally

Sanger's account of her talk to the Ku Klux Klan

Given Margaret Sanger's preoccupation with race (see previous article), it should come as no surprise to anyone that Sanger would accept an invitation to give a speech to an organization that also has a preoccupation with race - the Ku Klux Klan. Not only did Sanger accept the invitation, but the excerpt below from her own 1938 autobiography indicates the she got along quite well with members of a New Jersey branch of the Ku Klux Klan, eventually getting a "dozen invitations to speak to similar groups."

Perhaps this is because the KKK's ideas and Margaret Sanger's ideas concerning race are so similar. No doubt the KKK must have been happy with Sanger's "Negro Project" which was designed to cut down on the number of black babies being born. In a December 10, 1939 letter, Margaret Sanger wrote to Dr. Clarence Gamble about her "Negro Project," saying, "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." (See Blessed Are The Barren The Social Policy of Planned Parenthood by Robert Marshall and Charles Donovan, Ignatius Press, 1991, pages 17-18.)

Here is Sanger's account of her trip to talk to the Ku Klux Klan from pages 366-367 of Margaret Sanger An Autobiography (1971 reprint by Dover Publications, Inc. of the 1938 original published by W.W. Norton & Company).


All the world over, in Penang and Skagway, in El Paso and Helsingfors, I have found women's psychology in the matter of childbearing essentially the same, no matter what the class, religion, or economic status. Always to me any aroused group was a good group, and therefore I accepted an invitation to talk to the women's branch of the Ku Klux Klan at Silver Lake, New Jersey, one of the weirdest experiences I had in lecturing.

My letter of instruction told me what train to take, to walk from the station two blocks straight ahead, then two to the left. I would see a sedan parked in front of a restaurant. If I wished I could have ten minutes for a cup of coffee or bite to eat, because no supper would be served later.

I obeyed orders implicitly, walked the blocks, saw the car, found the restaurant, went in and ordered some cocoa, stayed my allotted ten minutes, then approached the car hesitatingly and spoke to the driver. I received no reply. She might have been totally deaf as far as I was 1 concerned. Mustering up my courage, I climbed in and settled back. Without a turn of the head, a smile, or a word to let me know I was right, she stepped on the self-starter. For fifteen minutes we wound around the streets. It must have been towards six in the afternoon. We took this lonely lane and that through the woods, and an hour later pulled up in a vacant space near a body of water beside a large, unpainted, barnish building.

My driver got out, talked with several other women, then said to me severely, "Wait here. We will come for you." She disappeared. More cars buzzed up the dusty road into the parking place. Occasionally men dropped wives who walked hurriedly and silently within. This went on mystically until night closed down and I was alone in the dark. A few gleams came through chinks in the window curtains. Even though it was May, I grew chillier and chillier.

After three hours I was summoned at last and entered a bright corridor filled with wraps. As someone came out of the hall I saw through the door dim figures parading with banners and illuminated crosses. I waited another twenty minutes. It was warmer and I did not mind so much. Eventually the lights were switched on, the audience seated itself, and I was escorted to the platform, was introduced, and began to speak.

Never before had I looked into a sea of faces like these. I was sure that if I uttered one word, such as abortion, outside the usual vocabulary of these women they would go off into hysteria. And so my address that night had to be in the most elementary terms, as though I were trying to make children understand.

In the end, through simple illustrations I believed I had accomplished my purpose. A dozen invitations to speak to similar groups were proffered. The conversation went on and on, and when we were finally through it was too late to return to New York. Under a curfew law everything in Silver Lake shut at nine o'clock. I could not even send a telegram to let my family know whether I had been thrown in the river or was being held incommunicado. It was nearly one before I reached Trenton, and I spent the night in a hotel.


Margaret Sanger