Angela Davis (May 6, 2014), "Angela Y. Davis on what's radical in the 21st century (interview)", Los Angeles Times at: February 25, 2025

While I would never argue that birth control or abortion rights constitute genocide, I have to take into consideration how sterilization has been imposed on poor people, especially people of color, and that someone like Margaret Sanger argued [birth control] was a privilege of affluent women but a duty for poorer women.

— Angela Davis

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "While I would never argue that birth control or abortion rights constitute genocide, I have to take into consideration how sterilization has been imposed on poor people, especially people of color, and that someone like Margaret Sanger argued [birth control] was a privilege of affluent women but a duty for poorer women." in the context of "Angela Davis (May 6, 2014), "Angela Y. Davis on what's radical in the 21st century (interview)", Los Angeles Times at: February 25, 2025" 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.