Marquis de Condorcet

“Either no individual of the human race has genuine rights, or they all have the same; and he who votes against the right of another, whatever his religion, color, or sex, has from that moment abjured his own.”

“The rights of men result from the fact that they are sentient beings, capable of acquiring moral ideas and of reasoning.”

“Slavery is a crime, because it is an attack on the personality of man.”

“Enjoy your own life without comparing it with that of another.”

“The day will come when the sun will shine only on free men who know no other master but their reason.”

“The truth belongs to those who seek it, not to those who claim to possess it.”

“Education should be the same for men and women.”

“How can we have the courage to wish to reform abuses if we are not permitted to examine them?”

“A truly free man, to remain free, has need of nothing.”

“The spectacle of a great nation in which the rights of man are respected is useful to all.”