The latitude and longitudinal lines of where you are born determine your opportunity in life, and it's not equal. We may have been created equal, but we're not born equal. It's a lot to do with luck and you have to pass that on.
Luck cannot change birth.
It's kind of almost not fair that certain people don't get the opportunities that others get just because of where they are born or where they were brought up.
What family you were born into matters so much more than it did before in a perverse way.
Of course, I have privileges that others don't. But, you don't choose where you are born. If you want to hate me for that, I am sorry.
I'm not against gay people. I have a relative who is also gay. We can't help it if they were born that way.
One is born into a herd of buffaloes and must be glad if one is not trampled under foot before one's time.
I'm the rogue Canadian in my family - I just happened to be born here while my parents were studying here.
Of the Yamacraw children, I can say little. I don't think I changed the quality of their lives significantly or altered the inexorable fact that they were imprisoned by the very circumstance of their birth.
The question of religion was a matter for each individual's conscience, and in a great many cases was the outcome of birth or residence in a certain geographical area.
