7 memorable speeches from 2021

Brut America

3/25/2025

Here are some of the most memorable speeches from 2021 ...

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00:00Today, we are able to breathe again.

00:02There is no planet block.

00:04No person should have to go into debt, crushing debt, in order to get an education.

00:16I could do nothing but watch, especially in that courtroom, over and over and over again,

00:22as my brother was murdered.

00:25I'm going to put up a fight every day, because I'm not just fighting for George anymore,

00:31I'm fighting for everybody around this world.

00:35I get calls, I get DMs, people from Brazil, from Ghana, from Germany, everybody, London,

00:43Italy, they're all saying the same thing.

00:46We won't be able to breathe until you're able to breathe.

00:51Today, we are able to breathe again, because justice for George means freedom for all.

01:01There is no planet B.

01:02There is no planet blah.

01:04Blah, blah, blah.

01:05Blah, blah, blah.

01:06This is not about some expensive, politically correct, green act of bunny hugging, or blah,

01:12blah, blah.

01:13Build back better.

01:14Blah, blah, blah.

01:15Green economy.

01:17Blah, blah, blah.

01:19This is all we hear from our so-called leaders.

01:23Words, words that sound great, but so far, has led to no action.

01:33Our hopes and dreams drown in their empty words and promises.

01:38Of course, we need constructive dialogue, but they've now had 30 years of blah, blah,

01:43blah, and where has that led us?

01:45I hope that you can feel how gut-wrenching that is.

01:49I hope you can feel how dehumanizing it is to have the autonomy over your own body taken

01:56away from you.

01:57Recently, the heartbeat bill was passed in Texas.

02:00Starting in September, there will be a ban on abortions after six weeks of pregnancy,

02:06regardless of whether the pregnancy was a result of rape or incest.

02:11Six weeks.

02:13That's all women get.

02:14And so before they realize, most of them don't realize that they're pregnant by six

02:18weeks.

02:19I have dreams and hopes and ambitions.

02:22Every girl graduating today does.

02:25And we have spent our entire lives working towards our future.

02:30And without our input and without our consent, our control over that future has been stripped

02:36away from us.

02:38I am terrified that if my contraceptives fail,

02:42I am terrified that if I am raped, then my hopes and aspirations and dreams and efforts

02:49for my future will no longer matter.

02:52I'm going to show you what patriotism, the questions about patriotism looks like.

02:57Here is my proof.

03:00I went to U.S. Army to serve 20 years active duty, 24-7.

03:06I have put up with a lot of shit in silence.

03:10Excuse me, the language.

03:14Too afraid to speak out.

03:17Fearing more abuse and discrimination.

03:20I'm not ashamed to walk around anymore.

03:23Before I felt inhibited, people looked at me strange.

03:31And they questioned me, my loyalty to this country.

03:35I don't look American enough.

03:38Now, last I read the U.S. Constitution, we the people, we are all the same.

03:43We are equal.

03:45You care about life?

03:48Then get these dangerous military-style weapons off the streets, out of our schools.

03:55I understand that my Republican colleagues have very strong views on issues related to abortion.

04:04But I listened to my Republican colleagues come down here one after another today and

04:10talk about the sanctity of life.

04:14At the very moment that moms and dads in Michigan were being told that their kids weren't coming

04:18home because they were shot at school due to a country that has accepted gun violence

04:22due to Republicans' fealty to the gun lobby.

04:25So please, I beg my colleagues, if you're going to come down here and talk about the

04:29sanctity of life, explain to the American people why the gun lobby matters more than

04:37the safety of our children who are walking into school every day, fearing for their life.

04:45It makes me sad that some politicians use trans kids like me to get votes from people

04:50who hate me just because I exist.

04:53I've been having to explain myself since I was three or four years old.

04:59Texas legislators have been attacking me since pre-K.

05:03I am in fourth grade now.

05:06When it comes to bills that target trans youth, I immediately feel angry.

05:11It's been very scary and overwhelming.

05:15Please, just listen to me, hear me.

05:18Try to educate yourselves.

05:20Try to understand everybody.

05:25No person should have to go into debt, crushing debt, in order to get an education.

05:32We have a moral obligation, an economic obligation, a political obligation to cancel student loan

05:39debt in the United States of America.

05:41We can stop writing these ridiculous articles that young people are killing diamond rings

05:46and they're not buying houses and they're killing this industry or that, that we're

05:50not having children.

05:52It's because we're being crushed by immoral debt.

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