The church has stood, a rock colossus of bigotry, in the path of ten thousand proposed reforms. Sane efforts to legalize birth control information, the manufacture of proper birth control appliances, appliances for the inhibition of the spread of venereal disease, public instruction in sex hygiene, free clinics for the treatment of venereal disease, the inspection and treatment of prostitutes, controlled prostitution itself, the publication of psychological and physical sex information, aid for unwed mothers-myriad attempts by sane men acting sanely on real problems-have been fought down by church-frightened legislatures and church-dominated courts.

Few men, indeed, are so mad that they do not know when they are doing wrong. But so avid is their pursuit of goods that wrongdoing has become an element of all…

Absolute dominion of a powerful people by a minority always produces national aggression.

Ignorance is not bliss -- it is oblivion. Determined ignorance is the hastiest kind of oblivion.

It is apparent that nothing short of contraceptives can put an end to the horrors of abortion and infanticide.

Affirmative action has to be combined with a broader program of social reform that would emphasize social rights: the right to employment, the right to educati…

The nation guarantees the nurture, education, and comfortable maintenance of every citizen from the cradle to the grave.