Individual liberty – not privileged liberty but human liberty, and the real potential of individuals – will only be able to enjoy full expansion in a regime of complete equality. When there exists an equality of origins for all men on this earth then, and only then … will one be able to say, with more reason than one can today, that every individual is a self-made man.

Mikhail Bakunin, “Essay from Egalite (14 August 1869)” (via philosophybits)