"This is all wrong. I shouldn't be up here. I should be back in school on the other side of the ocean."

"You still act as if there is no crisis, no matter how loud we scream."

"We children are not sacrificing our education and our childhood for you to tell us what you consider is politically possible in the society that you have created."

"I want to be remembered as someone who tried to make a difference."

"At first when I heard about climate change, I was a climate denier. I didn't think it was happening. Because if there really was an existential crisis like that, that would threaten our civilisation, …"