The basic thought of universalism of life claims comes from many pioneers. "It is justice, not charity, that is wanting in the
world," wrote Mary Wollstonecraft, the pioneering feminist, in A Vindication of the Rights ofWoman, published in 1792. In the same year, her friend Thomas Paine published the second part of the Rights ofMan. Both were concerned with giving everyone-women and men-power over their lives and opportunities to live according to their own values and aspirations.