"Our lives are in your hands."

"My message is that we'll be watching you. This is all wrong. I shouldn't be up here. I should be back in school on the other side of the ocean. Yet you all come to us young people for hope. How dare y…"

"This ongoing irresponsible behavior will no doubt be remembered in history as one of the greatest failures of humankind."

"We children are doing this to wake the adults up. We children are doing this for you to put your differences aside and start acting as you would in a crisis."

"I am telling you, there is hope. I have seen it. But it does not come from governments or corporations. It comes from the people."