Chesler, Ellen (2007), Woman of Valor: Margaret Sanger and the Birth Control Movement in America, page: 15, place: New York, publisher: Simon and Schuster, ISBN: 978-1-4165-4076-2

Margaret Sanger was never herself a racist, but she lived in a profoundly bigoted society, and her failure to repudiate prejudice unequivocally – especially when it was manifest among proponents of her cause – has haunted her ever since.

— Chesler

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Margaret Sanger

About Margaret Sanger

Margaret Higgins Sanger (September 14, 1879 – September 6, 1966) was an American birth control activist, feminist, and eugenicist who opened the first birth control clinic in the United States and established organizations that evolved into the Planned Parenthood Federation of America.