"We are telling you to act as if you loved your children above all else."

"The longer you wait, the worse it gets."

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

"We live in a strange world, where we think we can buy or build our way out of a crisis that has been created by buying and building things."

"Adults keep saying, 'We owe it to the young people to give them hope.' But I don't want your hope. I don't want you to be hopeful. I want you to panic."