Graeme Taylor, the gay 14-year-old who stood up for a teacher who was suspended without pay for kicking a homophobic student out of his classroom, appeared on The Ellen DeGeneres Show Monday to talk about his speech.

Taylor tells DeGeneres he didn’t write anything down — it was all off the top of his head. DeGeneres tells Taylor the world is a better place with him in it.

Watch here.

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