Daily Inspiration Quote by Margaret Sanger

Diplomacy, in Sanger's framing, isn’t the art of peace so much as the craft of managed perception. “Make it their business” is the knife twist: concealment isn’t an occasional sin of state, it’s the job description. The line works because it’s both accusation and demystification, stripping the velvet off a profession that sells itself as sober, civilized, and above the mess of ordinary politics.

Coming from Margaret Sanger, the bite lands with extra force. As an activist who spent her life battling laws, clergy, and political gatekeepers to legitimize contraception, she had front-row experience with how institutions “handle” inconvenient realities: women’s bodily risk, poverty’s churn, the quiet brutality of forced motherhood. Diplomacy here becomes a stand-in for every respectable intermediary who turns urgent human need into negotiable language. Facts aren’t merely hidden; they’re delayed, reframed, and diluted until they stop demanding action.

The subtext is a warning about power’s preferred method: not always censorship, but euphemism. Diplomats don’t have to lie if they can keep the truth procedural, classified, or politely “complex.” Sanger’s sentence also flatters the reader into clarity: if you feel gaslit by official statements, you’re not paranoid - you’re noticing the system working as designed.

In the early 20th century, when “public morals” and national interest routinely overrode women’s autonomy, the quote doubles as strategy. If the facts will be concealed, activists must be louder, more literal, and less deferential. It’s a call to treat politeness as an obstacle, not a virtue.