Chapter 8, "Birth Control; A Parents' Problem or Woman's?"
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The basic freedom of the world is woman's freedom. A free race cannot be born of slave mothers. A woman enchained cannot choose but give a measure of that bondage to her sons and daughters. No woman can call herself free who does not own and control her body. No woman can call herself free until she can choose consciously whether she will or will not be a mother.
— Margaret Sanger
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This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "The basic freedom of the world is woman's freedom. A free race cannot be born of slave mothers. A woman enchained cannot choose but give a measure of that bondage to her sons and daughters. No woman can call herself free who does not own and control her body. No woman can call herself free until she can choose consciously whether she will or will not be a mother." in the context of "Chapter 8, "Birth Control; A Parents' Problem or Woman's?"" to mean that wisdom is timeless.
Source: Wikiquote: "Margaret Sanger" (Quotes, Woman and the New Race, (1922): New York: Brentanos Publishers, 1922.http://www.bartleby.com/1013/)
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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.
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.
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