"Why should I be studying for a future that soon may be no more?"

"I came to Davos to tell you that our house is on fire. Your inaction is fueling the flames."

"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."

"The climate crisis is not just about the environment. It is a crisis of human rights, of justice, and of willpower. Political systems have failed. But human beings have not."

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