The Most Powerful Speeches From the D.C. March

From Seventeen

On Saturday's March For Our Lives in Washington, students delivered incredibly moving words on losing friends and family members to gun violence. They also spoke passionately about the need for reform, and a shared anger at the National Rifle Association. Many of them also called out politicians for not doing enough to stop gun-related deaths in schools, and not caring about the nation's youth.

The speakers came from across the country - from Parkland to Chicago to Los Angeles - and from different socioeconomic backgrounds. But they all shared similar messages: The time for change is now.

Here are just some of the inspiring speeches delivered on Saturday, which will be updated throughout the day.

Edna Chavez

"This is normal, normal to the point that I've learned to duck from bullets before I learned how to read."

Cameron Kasky

"The March is not the climax of this movement, it is the beginning. If you think today is good, just wait for tomorrow."

Trevon Bosley

"Since 2006, there have been more than 5,850 people shot and killed in Chicago, and since 2012, there have been more than 16,000 people shot in Chicago."

Alex Wind

"People believe that the youth of this country are insignificant ... To those people that tell us that teenagers can't do anything, I say that we were the only people that could have made this movement possible."

David Hogg

"We're going to make sure the best people get in our elections to run not as politicians, but as Americans. Because this-this-is not cutting it."

Delaney Tarr

"This is more than just a march, this is more than just one day, one event, then moving on. This is a movement relying on the passion and persistence of its people."

Naomi Wadler

"I am here to acknowledge and represent the African-American girls whose stories don't make the front page of every national newspaper, whose stories don't lead on the evening news."

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