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 of Woman, published in 1792. In the same year, her friend Thomas Paine published the second part of the Rights of Man. Both were concerned with giving everyone-women and men-power over their lives and opportunities to live according to their own values and aspirations.