3 Quotes & Sayings By Millicent Fawcett

Millicent Fawcett was born in 1877 in England. She studied art in Paris, and in 1913 she moved to New York, where she became a leading photographer of the Harlem Renaissance. She focused on portraits of African Americans in their everyday settings, including the activist W.E.B. Du Bois; the writer Langston Hughes; and boxer Joe Louis.

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The assertion of failure coming from such persons does not mean that Mr. Mill failed to promote the practical success of those objects the advocacy of which forms the chief feature of his political writings. Millicent Fawcett
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A large part of the present anxiety to improve the education of girls and women is also due to the conviction that the political disabilities of women will not be maintained. Millicent Fawcett