Misquoted by Diane S. Dew (2001)
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• Omits words from a letter to Dr. Clarence Gamble Sanger proposing the "Negro Project", where Sanger wrote: "The ministers work is also important and also he should be trained, perhaps by the [Birth Control] Federation [of America] as to our ideals and the goal that we hope to reach. And 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."

We do not want word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population, if it ever occurs to any of their more rebellious members.

— Margaret Sanger

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "We do not want word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population, if it ever occurs to any of their more rebellious members." in the context of "Misquoted by Diane S. Dew (2001)
Analyzed by Snopes fact checkers
• Omits words from a letter to Dr. Clarence Gamble Sanger proposing the "Negro Project", where Sanger wrote: "The ministers work is also important and also he should be trained, perhaps by the [Birth Control] Federation [of America] as to our ideals and the goal that we hope to reach. And 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."" to mean that wisdom is timeless.

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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.