I had always heard that Margaret Sanger, eugenicist and founder of Planned Parenthood, had made the following quote:
“We want a world freer, happier, cleaner — we want a race of thoroughbreds.”
But though I had heard the quote often, I had never traced it back to an early source. That is, until today.
Printed on the front page of a 1926 edition of the newspaper for Reading, Pennsylvania, here is the famous Sanger quote in all of its racist-overtone boldness.
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