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doctors were involved, except Dr. Hannah and Dr. Abraham Stone and Dr. Robert Dickinson. They were among the first friends of Margaret Sanger ever since the beginning of her efforts in the late teens, and those three doctors really were heroic people.

I first met Margaret Sanger at the House in the country in 1938. I immediately liked her and became friends with her. She spent a great deal of time in Arizona in the winter and wasn't any longer the active head of the organization. The entire birth control movement in the United States had been stimulated through her efforts originally, however, in the late teens and early '20s. She had gone to jail several times in these early days because at about this time birth control was illegal. She is an heroic, dedicated woman who more than any one single person in the United States, and as far as I know on a world level, has brought the need home to pepople initially and who later went on to push the need for population control and bring it to the degree of acceptance that it now has, in 1963.

From your knowledge of her and your friendship with her, what was the motivating factor which caused her to go on this crusade?

Well, I think her motivating factor was that she had been a nurse in the lower East Side of New York, had seen the injustice and misery caused by the lack of information about birth control, and her passion was against the injustice of it to women. She had a passionate sense of the injustice, of the ignorance in this area.