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Emma González Quotes

Total quotes: 13
“We certainly do not understand why it should be harder to make plans with friends on weekends than to buy an automatic or semi-automatic weapon.”
— Emma González, Florida student Emma Gonzalez to lawmakers and gun advocates: 'We call BS'
Tagged: Gun Control, Ease of Violence
“If you actively do nothing, people continually end up dead, so it's time to start doing something.”
— Emma González, Florida student Emma Gonzalez to lawmakers and gun advocates: 'We call BS'
Tagged: Call To Action, Gun Violence
“Fight for your lives before it's someone else's job.”
— Emma González, March For Our Lives
Tagged: March for our lives, Gun Control, Gun Violence, Parkland, school shootings, Lives, humanity, Quote of the Moment
“Everybody needs to understand how we feel and what we went through, because if they don’t, they’re not going to be able to understand why we’re fighting for what we’re fighting for.”
— Emma González, Emma González Leads a Student Outcry on Guns: ‘This Is the Way I Have to Grieve’
Tagged: Gun Control, school shootings, Activism
“After all of this pain and all of this death caused by gun violence, it seems as if the kids are the only ones who still have the energy to make change.”
— Emma González, Dear Lawmakers, You’re Killing Us
Tagged: Gun Control, Activism, Politics, school shootings
“If I wasn't so open about who I was I never would've been able to do this.”
— Emma González, What we know about Emma Gonzalez, the fiercely outspoken teen who stunned America with her silence
“Any way you cut it, one of the biggest threats to life as a teen in the U.S. today is being shot.”
— Emma González, Dear Lawmakers, You’re Killing Us
Tagged: school shootings, Generation Z, Guns in America
“We’re going against the largest gun lobby. We could very well die trying to do this. But we could very well die not trying to do this, too. So why not die for something rather than nothing?”
— Emma González, 6 Minutes and 20 Seconds That Could Change the World
Tagged: NRA, National Rifle Association, Activism, Gun Control
“The people in the government who were voted into power are lying to us. And us kids seem to be the only ones who notice and our parents to call BS.”
— Emma González, Florida student Emma Gonzalez to lawmakers and gun advocates: 'We call BS'
Tagged: Politicians Lie, Children vs. Adults, Establishment Norms, Don't Trust Anyone Over 21
“We have grown up in this country and watched violence unfold to no resolution. We have watched people with the power and authority to make changes fail to do so.”
— Emma González, Dear Lawmakers, You’re Killing Us
Tagged: Gun Control, school shootings, Politicians
“Nikolas Cruz would not have harmed that many students with a knife.”
— Emma González, Florida student Emma Gonzalez to lawmakers and gun advocates: 'We call BS'
Tagged: Gun Violence, Guns, American Politics, school shootings, Parkland Shooting, Knifes vs. Guns
“In Florida, to buy a gun you do not need a permit, you do not need a gun license, and once you buy it you do not need to register it. You do not need a permit to carry a concealed rifle or shotgun. You can buy as many guns as you want at one time.”
— Emma González, Florida student Emma Gonzalez to lawmakers and gun advocates: 'We call BS'
Tagged: Florida, Florida Gun Laws
“We can't build our world out of Kevlar.”
— Emma González
Tagged: Gun Control, Gun Reform, Quote of the Moment, Guns, Gun Safety, Mass Shootings, Parkland Shooting
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