Several key humanist voices spoke up for the idea of everyone sharing an essential humanity, and for reasons to do with life in this world, not prospects of salvation in the next. It was thanks to humanistic beliefs in reason and meliorism that Voltaire argued for tolerance of different religions, Condorcet and Olympe de Gouges argued for including women and non-European races in the French Revolutionary idea of human liberation, and their fellow Enlightenment thinker Jeremy Bentham argued for what would now be called LGBTQ+ rights.
