Debate on birth control. Margaret Sanger and Winter Russell — John Shaqi
Debate on birth control. Margaret Sanger and Winter RussellSanger, Margaret
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Debate on birth control. Margaret Sanger and Winter Russell
Sanger, Margaret
Birth control -- Moral and ethical aspects
Take the intellectual life of America today. Greenwich Village thinks it
is intellectual. It is the intellectual sewage disposal plant of America
today, and it is not very scientific. It is a fact. Fifth Avenue and the
west side where I live—it is the social garbage dumping grounds of the
United States of America. All these people that think that they have to
be decent and have the freedom and liberty—freedom to be foul, freedom
to be disgusting—if there is anything that annoys me and my nerves is
this puking pus that is called love poured forth over the poodle dog by
some volunteer married person today.
As a matter of fact, a large family is the hope of the world. It is the
greatest disciplinary force that there is in life. There is nothing that
so develops the mind and soul of man and the woman as bringing up a
great family of children. These disciplinary forces we are losing today
and that is because we are following the easiest way. We are taking the
course of the least resistance. You are trying to get the honey and
escape the thorns, and it can’t be done.
Oh, these people. If Mrs. Sanger were true in this matter—then why is it
that the great mass of people—the down and outers, are single men, and a
good many of them, single women? It is because they haven’t control to
get the skill that is necessary and there is always that condition. We
find that by self-control one can lead a life of singleness. We find
that self-control gives them influence and power. School teachers,
priests and nuns—those people that have a tremendous influence, practice
self-control—they think they can obtain the pleasure without paying for
it.
Now, the individual is really unimportant. If you look at life itself
and what you are trying to do, it is the race that is going to produce.
It is the race of the past that has made it possible for us to be here
today. And only as we measure up to this tremendous responsibility does
the race of tomorrow depend. I cannot give you all that I would like to
give you—a vision. But I believe that in these great unborn numbers is
really—there is the real resources of America. Why, we have resources
ample. We could all move into Texas and it would not be as crowded as
Belgium was before the war began. This matter of food and clothes—we
haven’t begun to touch the resources.
About that little town in Maine, rotten to the core with its birth
control, there are hundreds of depleted farms that used to support
families of ten and twelve children, and do that well, too.
That is where the future lies in the great unborn, in the heart, and in
the soul. The psychologists say we use but 10 percent of the brains we
have and we are using a small percentage of the spiritual and moral
resources we have, and we can do it if we live up to this responsibility
that we ought to incur.
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