Simon Aban Deng is a Sudanese human rights activist living in the United States. He is a victim of child slavery. A native of the Shilluk Kingdom in southern Sudan, Deng spent several years as a domestic slave in southern Sudan... (wikipedia)
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.
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.
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.
I walked to be the voice of those who have no voice.
I'm not by myself. They are behind me.
I'm doing this from my heart. My people run for their lives, and they don't train to do so.
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.