Frances Witherspoon

Overview

Frances Witherspoon born Meridian, MS July 8, 1886 (d. 1973). Absolute pacifist; Christian Socialist; suffragist; co-founded Anti-Enlistment League 1915, and War Resisters League 1923; poet and playwright. Lesbian partner of anti-war leader Tracy Mygatt; early member of Women's Peace Party, WILPF and FOR, SANE.

Quotations

"The state of gigantic armies and navies is the anti-social state. . . the anti-feminist state. . . an aristocracy of sex, bullets to back ballots." (New York Call, 1916 in Frances Early, A World Without War, p. 190, 1997; photo flickr.com)