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The United States of America is located in North America. The President is Barack Obama, elected in 2008.

Defenders - United States

"To this day, I can smell the decomposing bodies, disposed of in an open pit. I can hear the piercing screams of other people being tortured." More...

Fauziya Kassindja

"On Thursday they said I’d be married. On Friday they told me they’d cut me. At midnight I escaped." More...

Bobby Muller

"There is an organization for just about every conceivable issue you can come up with. What makes a difference is getting political leadership behind you..." More...

Elie Wiesel

"What I want, what I’ve hoped for all my life, is that my past should not become your children’s future." More...

Van Jones

“This guy was beaten, he’s kicked, he’s stomped, he’s pepper-sprayed, gagged (because they didn’t want him bleeding on them)..." More...

Helen Prejean

"Patrick was dead, but I didn’t have a choice. That day, my mission was born. It was just something I had to do because I knew I was a primary witness and I would take people there through my More...

Marian Wright Edelman

"Here we have poverty killing children, more slowly, but just as surely as guns, in a nation that has been blessed with a nine-trillion-dollar economy..." More...

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