I come from a country in which human beings are still being bought and sold into slavery. |
I find it difficult to be silent. Either I have to go out and tell the world, or stay and take arms against my government. |
I walked to be the voice of those who have no voice. |
I was constantly under terror. I'm here as living proof of slavery. |
I'm doing this from my heart. My people run for their lives, and they don't train to do so. |
I'm not by myself. They are behind me. |
Most of the fellow Sudanese, they don't want to talk about it. I am standing here for the simple reason (that) I need a solution. |
Slavery still exists today. I am standing before you as living proof. As a slave, I didn't know how to say no, I only knew how to say yes. I was beaten if I didn't say yes loudly enough; I was beaten for no reason at all. |
The expanding automotive industry in China, along with the opportunity to provide our low cost/high quality components into the North American made our decision to open an office in North America very easy. |
The people who will walk to Washington, D.C., are here to tell the world about courage, a word the United Nations has been unable to pronounce. |
The word 'genocide' has become too repeated and become another line people use to talk the talk. The U.S. should not follow the failure of the UN. |
They are wrong for not letting me cross the bridge. I am appealing to the Governor of Maryland and other officials to let me cross, so that I can continue. |
Usually, a donkey brings the water, but since the family had a slave, it was my job. Even if I finished everything they asked me to do, [the family] would let other people borrow me. |