Student activist and Parkland survivor Emma González gave an extremely passionate speech during today’s #MarchForOurLives rally in Washington DC which was one of many to take place around the United States and across the World. However it may have been the words that Emma González didn’t say that had the most impact on the rally goers today in DC. During her speech González stood silent as tears rolled down her face for six minutes and 20 seconds, the time it took for a gunman at her school to kill 17 teachers and classmates at Mary Stoneman Douglas High School back in February.
WATCH: Emma Gonzalez names the murdered Parkland victims and observes several minutes of silence in a 6-minute, 20-second speech that covered the same time it took the gunman to kill 17 people in her high school:
“Fight for your lives before it’s someone else’s job.” pic.twitter.com/OrTfuTdSNn
— NBC News (@NBCNews) March 24, 2018
Emma Gonzalez is standing in silence for 6 minutes, the same amount of time she and her peers sat in absolute fear and were shot down. To help us feel the eternity of that terror. Imagine that time, hearing the shots and not knowing if you’d live.
— Janine Brito (@janinebrito) March 24, 2018