Celebrating ordinary life and gentle human feelings. Being her own person at a time when that was not an easy thing for women to do.
She saved the books from Basra's Library, against orders, before the building was burnt down in the invasion of Iraq.
An Arab philosopher who, all those years ago, taught that religion was a “fable invented by the ancients,” worthless except for those who exploit the credulous masses.
Insisting that the underclass were decent human beings whose feelings should be respected.
Saving the world from nuclear war and establishing validity for the civil rights movement.
"... the only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others. His own good, either physical or moral, is not sufficient warrant. He cannot rightfully be compelled to do or forbear because it will be better for him to do so, because it will make him happier, because, in the opinion of others, to do so would be wise, or even right ..."
Curbing the State's control of the individual's freedom and promoting a "civilized society."
