Mary Elizabeth Britton

"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."