Through Sex, Mankind May Attain The Great

The Mother Memories That Are Closest To My Heart Are The Small Gentle Ones That I Have Carried Over From The Days Of My Childhood. They Are Not Profound, But They Have Stayed With Me Through Life, And When I Am Very Old, They Will Still Be Near . . . Memories Of Mother Drying My Tears, Reading Aloud, Cutting Cookies And Singing As She Did, Listening To Prayers I Said As I Knelt With My Forehead Pressed Against Her Knee, Tucking Me In Bed And Turning Down The Light. They Have Carried Me Through The Years And Given My Life Such A Firm Foundation That It Does Not Rock Beneath Flood Or Tempest.

As An Advocate Of Birth Control I Wish ... To Point Out That The Unbalance Between The Birth Rate Of The 'unfit' And The 'fit,' Admittedly The Greatest Present Menace To Civilization, Can Never Be Rectified By The Inauguration Of A Cradle Competition Between These Two Classes. In This Matter, The Example Of The Inferior Classes, The Fertility Of The Feeble-minded, The Mentally Defective, The Poverty-stricken Classes, Should Not Be Held Up For Emulation.... On The Contrary, The Most Urgent Problem Today Is How To Limit And Discourage The Over-fertility Of The Mentally And Physically Defective.

No Woman Can Call Herself Free Who Cannot Choose The Time To Be A Mother Or Not As She Sees Fit.

Couples Should Be Required To Submit Applications To Have A Child.

No Despot Ever Flung Forth His Legions To Die In Foreign Conquest, No Privilege-ruled Nation Ever Erupted Across Its Borders, To Lock In Death Embrace With Another, But Behind Them Loomed The Driving Power Of A Population Too Large For Its Boundaries And Its Natural Resources.