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Handicap And Equality
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Peter Hammill
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All men are born equal at the moment they arrive...
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Check the limbs and senses we require to survive.
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But some come deaf and dumb and blinded,
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Some have damage to their brains:
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Parents constantly reminded
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That they'll never play the normal children's games.
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They may not be normal,
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But they're people just the same.
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If Christ had been born defective to fulfil the Father's plan
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Would he be as easily accepted as God made man
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Or does the human value alter
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In the crippled human frame?
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Though the tongue and fingers falter
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Must we shut them out and shut them up,
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And shut the case and whisper 'such a shame... '
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That's how we shut them away.
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Most of us are lucky, free from accidents at birth
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But their victims share our right to the inheritance of earth.
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For all their grunts, their stumps,
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Their tumours, their eternal wheelchairs,
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We're the freaks, we're the inhumans,
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If we close our eyes and turn aside, pretend
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That if we do they'll not be there....
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They've got to face it, so we've got to face it.
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Still they've got to live with it
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In a worlds we supposedly share
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