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Mary Elizabeth Britton Quotes

1855–1925

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.

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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.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Mary Elizabeth Britton (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.