"...The 19th-century political thinker Alexis de Tocqueville
said it came from Christianity. "The most profound
geniuses of Rome and Greece" never came up with the
idea of equal rights, he wrote. "Jesus Christ had to come
to earth to make it understood that all members of the
human species are naturally alike and equal."..."
http://www.evolutionnews.org/2015/05/for_its_moral_i095901.html
