An emotional Emma González (@Emma4Change) concluded the #MarchForOurLives by standing in silence for 6 minutes and 20 seconds, the amount of time it took a gunman to kill 17 of her classmates at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. https://t.co/ZmVma1l4WI

— Twitter Moments (@TwitterMoments) March 24, 2018

If you’ve ever been a public speaker, you’ll know it takes nerves of steel to hold a silence this long in front of a crowd this large.

Emma Gonzalez has quite a life ahead of her.

I’m grateful she’s still with us. https://t.co/qOqDhQjdvO

— Kaz Weida (@kazweida) March 25, 2018