Why should I be studying for a future that soon may be no more, when no one is doing anything to save that future?

People in power have got away with not doing anything.

I don’t want you to be hopeful. I want you to panic.

We are striking because we have done our homework and they have not.

Humans are very adaptable: we can still fix this.

Everything needs to change – and it has to start today.

We must start today. We have no more excuses.

Without pressure from the people, our leaders can basically get away with not doing anything.

Together and united, we are unstoppable.

Since our leaders are behaving like children, we will have to take the responsibility they should have taken long ago.

Sometimes we just simply have to find a way.

It is still not too late to act

We deserve a safe future. And we demand a safe future. Is that really too much to ask?

Without that sense of urgency, how can we, the people, understand that we are facing a real crisis?

You must take action. You must do the impossible. Because giving up is never an option.

I’m sure the moment we start behaving as if we were in an emergency, we can avoid climate and ecological catastrophe.

I have reached the conclusion, a bit late perhaps, that speeches should be short.

If religious feeling is put in opposition to social change, then it does become an opium, but if it is joined to the struggle for social change then it is a wonderful medicine.

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