I want the line of my mother and grandmother, that world's worst birthright of violations, to stop here.
But ultimately, whatever fellowship he may have found along the way, the hero's quest is solitary, his triumph an allegory of the personal fulfillment that is, in the real world, both a birthright and a mirage.
*** It's called the cycle of violence, but in my family, female suffering is linear: abuse is passed down like the world's worst birthright, largely skipping the men and marking the women with scars, night terrors (and fantastic senses of humour).
The problem is the profound nonrecognition by the Arab world of Israel's birthright.
We will reject the notion that these principles are simply Western exports, incompatible with Islam or the Arab World — they are the birthright of every person.
But I kept the snapshot of that dog and me on my desk for years, a reminder that delight in the physical world is the natural birthright of every creature.
And they let her claim another birthright, a world of travel where human grief and need subside before -- or melt into -- landscapes (Brazil, Nova Scotia, Florida, New England), railroads, sidewalks, empty buildings, animals, pictures and statues.
Louie Gohmert, a Texas congressman, had earlier warned of enemies sending mothers-to-be to America to have their babies who could then be "raised and coddled as future terrorists" before being sent back.Only about a sixth of the world's nations practise birthright citizenship.
I'm tired of the many stories that re-explain the world I know by birthright (living black).
I'm tired of the many stories that re-explain the world I know by birthright (living while black).
