It is cherry picked. Her views were a little 'complicated' though... She was marginally pro-eugenics, she wanted to exclude the "unfit" from being able to immigrate, but always made that distinction along SES/education status rather than racial lines (still, I think she must have recognized the large overlap there). On the other hand, she was very pro-civil rights movement for blacks and a feminist first and foremost.

So, I'd say she was a cancerous progressive but just smart enough to recognize that subsidizing/encouraging the breeding & immigration of low-SES people would be objectively bad for everyone. I doesn't seem to me that she had any sense of love/loyalty for her people though, her motivation was a instead a universalist+feminist suffering prevention ideology.

She probably didn't hate any group. As an upper-class do-gooder, she just wanted to reduce populations of lower-class people including Irish, Italians and poor Whites. She and her group only needed enough to be servants.

The greater context of the Sanger quote: “We should hire three or four colored ministers, preferably with social-service backgrounds, and with engaging personalities. The most successful educational approach to the Negro is through a religious appeal. And we do not want word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population, and the minister is the man who can straighten out that idea if it ever occurs to any of their more rebellious members.”

That explains Jesse Jackson

from DumbesticTerrorist