Another similarity that the two revolutions shared was that they were both heavily influenced by the Enlightenment’s radical philosophies. Various philosophers enforced and spread their ideas throughout the age of Enlightenment. Such philosophers included Voltaire who was an outspoken supporter of social reform. He proposed that people had civil liberties such as freedom of speech and religion. His ideas were one of the more relevant philosophies in the revolutions because the French demanded reforms of fair taxation and freedom of speech and the Haitian slaves demanded general liberties for they had none to begin with. The French Declaration of the Rights of Man declared that men were "born and remain free and equal in rights," and enjoyed
