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Speeches from March for Our Lives in Washington D.C._ by [Lisa Marie Segarra](https://time.com/author/lisa-marie-segarra/) ## Lisa Marie Segarra Mar 31, 2018 7:55 PM UTC Speeches from March for Our Lives in Washington D.C. by [Lisa Marie Segarra](https://time.com/author/lisa-marie-segarra/) ## Lisa Marie Segarra Mar 31, 2018 7:55 PM UTC Singer and NRA board member Ted Nugent criticized [Parkland shooting survivors](http://time.com/5210892/barack-michelle-obama-parkland-march-lives/) calling them “soulless” and “ignorant.” “I really feel sorry for them because it’s not only ignorant and dangerously stupid, but it’s soulless. To attack the good, law-abiding families of America when well-known, predictable murderers commit these horrors is deep in the category of soulless,” Nugent said on “The Joe Pags Show,”[ according to The Hill. ](http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/381108-ted-nugent-parkland-students-protesting-gun-violence-are)“These poor children, I’m afraid to say this and it hurts me to say this, but the evidence is irrefutable, they have no soul.” Nugent, a vocal supporter of President Donald Trump has a history of making controversial comments. He added that the students’ comments come from outside influence. Though he said he would[ no longer engage in “hateful rhetoric”](http://time.com/4822417/ted-nugent-hateful-rhetoric-curtis-eboni/) following a shooting at a congressional baseball practice that left Republican members injured. “The dumbing down of America is manifested in the culture deprivation of our academia that have taught these kids the lies, media that have prodded and encouraged and provided these kids lies,” Nugent said. Nugent’s comments come after Fox News host Laura Ingraham [saw an exodus of advertisers](http://time.com/money/5222218/laura-ingraham-david-hogg-advertising-boycott/) for her show _The Ingraham Angle_ after mocking David Hogg, one of the shooting survivors and a gun-control activist. ## Transcript No one could believe that there were bodies in that building waiting to be identified for over a day. No one knew that the people who were missing had stopped breathing long before any of us had even known that a code red had been called. To those politicians supported by the NRA that allowed the continued slaughter of our children and our future, I say get your resume's ready. Is there a will to keep weapons of war off our streets? [ APPLAUSE ] Is there a will to break the stranglehold of the NRA? [ APPLAUSE ] Is there a will to bring morality to this country's politics? [ APPLAUSE ] Then stand up, speak up, register to vote. I" m here today to honor the words of Toni Morrison. [ APPLAUSE ] If there's, a book that you want to read but it hasn't been written yet, you must be the one to write it. [ APPLAUSE ] I urge everyone here, and everyone who hears my voice to join me, and tell in telling the stories that aren't told. [ INAUDIBLE ] To honour the girls, the women of colour who were murdered at disproportionate rates in this nation. I need each and everyonre of you, no matter your age to contionue to fight alongside us because hearts cannot pump without blood and I dont want your community to join the ghastly inner circle that might is now part of. My grandfather had a dream that his four little children will not be judge by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. I have a dream that enough is enough. [ APPLAUSE ] And that this Should be a gun free world, period. [ APPLAUSE ] ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5223651/ted-nugent-parkland-students/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5223651/ted-nugent-parkland-students/"},"headline":"'They Have No Soul.' 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