Mary Elizabeth Britton

Mary Elizabeth Britton (1855–1925) was an American physician, educator, suffragist, journalist and civil rights activist from Lexington, Kentucky. Britton was an original member of the Kentucky Negro Education Association, which formed in 1877. In 1904 became the first African American woman licensed as a physician in Lexington, Kentucky. Quotes in favor of woman suffrage. relegated to the realm of ignorance and servitude” as a “subordinate class, and most women are seen as something to be “bartered, or sold as a thing of merchandise. continuing to govern women without giving them the right to vote was essentially “taxation without representation. there has not been a “movement of any great importance…which woman has not taken a prominent part,” and the women’s suffrage movement was not to be any different. The fundamental principle of woman suffrage is, “That every human being has a right to mark out his or her own destiny, subject only to those restraints of society which are applied to all alike. External links