often misquote Sanger as saying, “[W]e want to exterminate the Negro population.”

In full context, however, the quote has the opposite meaning. In a 1939 letter to pro-birth control advocate Clarence J. Gamble, Sanger argued that black leaders should be involved in the effort to deliver birth control to the black community.

“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,” the letter said.

PolitiFact examined similar statements about Sanger made by then-Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain in 2011 and gave him a "Pants on Fire" rating.

"But we found no evidence that Sanger advocated - privately or publicly - for anything even resembling the 'genocide' of blacks, or that she thought blacks are genetically inferior," PolitiFact said.

(h/t: Right Wing Watch)