One afternoon in 2012, seated beside me on a bench in Manchester, my 12 years old son turned and asked me a question that would change my life. Mommy, why did you abandon me. I searched for an answer, but I couldn't find one.Where could I possibly begin. What does he remember. As a victim of human trafficking, I carried deep shame and humiliation.I had so many painful memories I wanted to bury in my heart. But today I stand before you as an antihuman trafficking activist, a voice for the countless North Kor ...

[Music] When I was 33 years old, I was told I had two years left to live. I sat in the office of my physician, uh, let me call him Dr. . G.Dr. . Y was one of the preeminent AIDS doctors in Manhattan. I had been diagnosed with HIV and my blood counts were dropping fast.The only medication available back in was highly toxic and I refused to take it. You will be in the hospital within two years, Dr. . G said to me with his serious doctor face.That will be the beginning of the end. How would you live your life ...

[Applause] So much can happen in a day. 24 hours packed with possibility. 1,440 minutes wondering what if.86,400 seconds willing, waiting, wandering. 525,600 minutes of It'll get better because it can, it will, it must. How many minutes.No, moments in a revolution. See, I've run out of decimal places calculating the fraction of time it takes to quotient justice. When the odds are stacked against us, what happens when the numbers dwindle.When clocks tire. When air holds its breath. What does silence sound li ...

I come from a place that is named for its historical courage, Liberty County, Georgia. It was named for liberty in because it was home to Lyman Hall and Buttonwinet, two of Georgia's three signers of the Declaration of Independence, one of the most important documents in human history. The area has been called the southern cradle of liberty because the people there believed in freedom and self-determination when that was a very dangerous thing to believe.Again, much later, Liberty County played another sign ...

website, but I still do. But commonly uh the post I read is like this. A young teenager's love confession said, "I like you. Can you become my girlfriend? Like that. But that's interesting, but not for me because I don't have a close female friend. So, I keep scrolling. The next post caught my eyes. It said, "Guys, I'm leaving.I'm leaving Shenzhen. " Wait, why? What we call Shenzhen? We call it as a city of miracle. We call it as a city of possibility. We said when you came here, you became a Shenzhener. Wh ...

We've taken out top military commanders, senior nuclear scientists, the Islamic regime's most significant enrichment facility, and a large portion of its ballistic missile arsenal. More is on the way. The regime doesn't know what hit them. They don't know what will hit them.The nation of Iran and the nation of Israel have been true friends since the days of Cyrus the Great. And the time has come for you to unite around your flag and your historic legacy by standing up for your freedom from an evil and oppre ...

Freedom. I think you've heard of this term over and over again in this one or two years of your UWC life or your IV life. What is freedom.Well, how did those people get freedom. How does the concept of freedom is explored in this context. Yeah, you might be tired of it.I understand that. But let me ask this question once again. What is freedom to you.Do you actually feel free right now. Me, when I was a kid, I thought that a freedom is that I could do anything. And I thought I could be free when I became an ...

It is interesting how difficult it seems for us to give an answer to one question. What does freedom mean to you. Is it feeling truly free, exuberant and almost like falling in love and filled with all the joy and happiness and or is it simply living without boundaries.Sometimes what seems to be obvious isn't actually true. So what does freedom mean. And which role do boundaries have in it.And what if freedom and boundaries aren't the opposites instead playing together making the other more meaningful. For ...