Greta Thunberg

"Our house is still on fire. Your silence is a choice."

"Some people can let things go, but I cannot, and I do not want to."

"I am not asking you to make the sacrifice I have made."

"No one is too small to make a difference."

"You say you love your children above all else, and yet you are stealing their future."

"The climate crisis is both the easiest and the hardest problem we have ever faced."

"I have Aspergers and that means I'm sometimes a bit different. But different is not always inferior."

"Why should I be studying for a future that will not exist?"

"Change is coming whether you like it or not."

"You cannot solve a crisis without treating it as a crisis."

"I want you to act as if the house is on fire, because it is."

"People keep asking me what they should do. But you already know what you should do."

"It is not about being young. It is about the message and the content of that message."

"Adults keep saying we owe it to young people to give them hope. But hope is not something you give."

"I speak for those who have no voice."

"It's not about what I want. It's about physics and chemistry."

"The bigger your carbon footprint, the bigger your moral footprint."

"We need to hear the unpleasant truth more than we need to hear more beautiful lies."

"I am just a messenger, and yet I get all this hate."

"If you really cared about the climate and nature, you wouldn't fly around the world."

"Being different is actually a gift, not a burden."

"The atmosphere doesn't care about our political views."

"My generation will not give up without a fight."

"You are failing us. But the young people are starting to understand your betrayal."

"I want you to feel the urgency. I want you to feel the fear that I feel."

"It shouldn't take a teenage girl to remind you of basic science."

"We have not come here to beg the world leaders to care about the climate crisis."

"The crisis is created by those in power, and we demand change from those in power."

"I refuse to accept a world shaped by the failures of those in charge."

"Empty words and promises are no longer enough."