This is not a political text. Our school strike has nothing to do with party politics.
-- Greta Thunberg (Our Lives Are in Your Hands )

Importance: In her first speech, given at a climate march in Stockholm, Thunberg dismantles the notion that the climate crisis is a political issue. By removing party politics, and partisan quarrels, from the root of the problem, Thunberg successfully unites her voice and activism with the planet itself. In doing so, Thunberg asks her audiences to do the same, to join together into a collective force, demanding rights for the global environment.

It is time to rebel.
-- Greta Thunberg (Almost Everything Is Black and White)

Importance: While addressing audience members at the Extinction Rebellion in London, Thunberg rallies her supporters, demanding a global movement begin at once. By insisting that now is the time for civil disobedience, Thunberg draws attention to the climate crisis as a systematic problem, one against which international populations must resist. She embodies this same brazen ferocity and insistence for...