Cripple him and you have a Sir Walter Scott.

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

Bury him in the snows of Valley Forge, and you have a George Washington.

Raise him in poverty and you have an Abraham Lincoln.

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

Burn him so severely in a school house fire that doctors say he will never walk again and you have a Glenn Cunningham, who set the world record in 1934 for running the mile in 4 min. 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, a running back for the great 1970's Pittsburgh Steelers.

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

Have him born in a Nazi Concentration camp, paralyze him from the waist down at the age of 4, and you have an Aesop Pearlman, the incomparable violinist.

Call him retarded and write him off as uneducated, and you have an 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 Douglass Bater, an RAF fighter pilot who was captured three times by the Germans and who escaped three times on artificial limbs.

Label him too stupid to learn and you have a 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 the famous statesman, 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, betray Him, and crucify Him, and He forgives you.....