"The main objects of the Population Congress would be:a) to raise the level and increase the general intelligence of population.b) to increase the population slowly by keeping the birth rate at its present level of fifteen per thousand, decreasing the death rate below its present mark of 11 per thousand.c) to keep the doors of immigration closed to the entrance of certain aliens whose condition is known to be detrimental to the stamina of the race, such as feebleminded, idiots, morons, insane, syphilitic, epileptic, criminal, professional prostitutes, and others in this class barred by the immigration laws of 1924.d) to apply a stern and rigid policy of sterilization and segregation to that grade of population whose progeny is tainted, or whose inheritance is such that objectionable traits may be transmitted to offspring.e) to insure the country against future burdens of maintenance for numerous offspring as may be born of feebleminded parents, by pensioning all persons with transmissible disease who voluntarily consent to sterilization.f) to give certain dysgenic groups in our population their choice of segregation or sterilization."
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"A Plan for Peace" (April 1932), pp. 107-108, summarizing an address to the New History Society, New York City (January 17, 1932) Article reprinted in Sterilized by the State" Eugenics, Race, and the Population Scare in Twentieth-Century North America, Randall Hansen 2013
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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 .
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