Opposition

Cripple him and you have Sir Walter Scott

Lock him up in a prison cell and you have a John Bunyon

Burry him in the snows of Valley Forge and you have George Washington

Raise him in poverty and you have Abraham Lincoln

Subject him to bitter religious strife and you have Franklin Delanore Roosevelt, the only president to serve four terms in office.

Burn him so severely in a school house fire that the doctors say he will never walk again and you have a Glen Cunningham who set the world record in 1934 for running the mile in 4 minutes 6.7 seconds

Deafen a genius composer and you have a Ludwig von Beethoven

Drag him more dead than alive from a rice paddy and you have a Rocky Blyer, running back for the great 1970 decade Pittsburg Steelers

Have them born into a society filled with racial prejudice and hatred and you have Booker T. Washington, Harriet Truman, or Martin Luther King Jr.

Have him born into a Nazi concentration camp, paralyze him from the waist down at the age of 4 and you have an Eastman Pearlman, the incomparable pianist.

Call him retarded and write him off as uneducated and you have Albert Einstein

Amputate the cancer-ridden leg of a young Canadian and you have a Terry Fox who ran half way across Canada on artificial legs.

Take both legs away from him and you have a Douglas Bater, an RAF fighter pilot who was captured three times by the Germans and who escaped three times on artificial legs.

Label him too stupid to learn and you have Thomas Edison

Blind him at the age of 44 and you have a John Milton, who 16 years later wrote the great Paradise Lost

Call him dull, hopeless, and flunk him out of school in the 6th grade and you have Winston Churchill

Tell a boy who loves to draw that he has no talent and you have Walt Disney

Spit on Him. Mock him, humiliate Him, and crucify Him, and He forgives you and you have our Lord, Jesus Christ

-- Author Unknown