I’d lost myself in the abyss of someone else’s tyranny…again.

You either learn to play hard ball or you become the ball.

I kept my eyes closed until I felt my resolve to be who I wanted to be come back. I couldn’t stay this desperate. It wouldn’t look good to people watching from the outside.

All I wanted to do was go back inside to the library and read a book.I used to spend all my time reading books, or watching television. It was safe. Nobody ever was hurt or...

There is no gesture more devastating than the back turning away.

No matter how much bullying they inflict on my body, as long as I have this hope, I can endure any pain.

The singing stopped when I walked in. They all turned and stared at me, Bonne-Bell-Orange-Crush-glossed mouths hanging open, looking at me with the same horror and excitement they’d exhibit it I had just walked into...

The people who support and defend those accused of child sexual abuse indiscriminately, those who join organizations dedicated to defending people who are accused of child sexual abuse with no screening whatsoever to keep out...

If Amber kept up her act forever, it would only be a matter of time before the broken pieces of her real self were too small to ever be put back together. I didn’t know...

I had never liked bullying of any sort, especially when an individual acquires his courage by becoming part of a faceless mob. I always say if you need fake courage, get it out of a...

I was modest–they accused me of being crafty: I became secretive. I felt deeply good and evil–nobody caressed me, everybody offended me: I became rancorous. I was gloomy–other children were merry and talkative. I felt...

I walk with my head high, shoulders squared. I’m better than them. No matter the whispers and taunts they throw out. Fuck them. Fuck them all.

A bully with charisma and top marks is still a bully. He’ll probably end up Prime Minister one day. God help us all.

Words have great power that could make or break others…so please be care with them✌

Dont compare your life to others. you have no idea what their journey is all about

Life is a fight, but not everyone’s a fighter. Otherwise, bullies would be an endangered species.

I will never grow thick skin so that you don’t have to feel bad about being a jerk to me.

You know, when someone hurts my feelings, somehow it does not comfort me to know that it was deliberate… On the other hand, knowing that someone else thinks they are assholes helps a great deal.”...

Abstaining from sex, hitting the books, and wearing loose-fitting clothes are common ways that girls try to molt their “slutty” image. But more often their shame leads them to self-destructive behavior. They become willing to...

It’s been happening since I was in kindergarten. Not them all the time, but other kids, you know. Every day. It never stops, and it never goes away, thanks to the Internet–it just keeps happening...

I don’t always think of myself as ethnic…my mom is Black, and my dad is White, and we like to call my race”Bi-racial”. Everyone at camp is interesting because they just call me Black. -Mackenzie

Stay away from people who gossip and spread rumors. They are choosing the path of emotional bullying and negativity.

You are as big as your enemies and as small as your fear.

if there are no heros to save you,Then you be the hero

1. Bullying is not okay. Period.2. Freedom of religion does not give you the right to physically or verbally assault people.3. If your sincerely-held religious beliefs require you to bully children, then your beliefs are...

Haters, back off!

I’m going to fuck you up until your mother bleeds.

The non-jocks, the readers, the gay kids, the ones starting to stew about social injustice: for these kids, “letting your freak flag fly” is both self discovery and self defense. You cry for this bunch...

I don’t know why Rachel is the way she is, but I hope one day she will get over it. She may be hiding something none of us understand.

We don’t yet know, above all, what the world might be like if children were to grow up without being subjected to humiliation, if parents would respect them and take them seriously as people.

I’m not allowed to be who I really am.

I was an innocent 6 year old boy when I was bullied & I was a damaged, bipolar, paranoid, & social phobic 17 year old boy when it stopped, because I stopped it.

I meant that the hatred of that July day in Nashville was alive and well on that horrible day in Pittsburgh. People hate others so they strike like snakes. It’s all connected—we’re all connected, bumping...

Brandon was like a God in Healy, and I guess I was like God’s best friend.

Asshole Proximity Disorder

People try to say suicide is the most cowardly act a man could ever commit. I don’t think that’s true at all. What’s cowardly is treating a man so badly that he wants to commit...

Each of us is a book waiting to be written, and that book, if written, results in a person explained.

tough.” I think of the stuff Dad has said over the years. How he finally gave up suggesting things. Why are you asking me this? I never figured out what to do about my own...

A young outcast will often feel that there is something wrong with himself, but as he gets older, grows more confident in who he is, he will adapt, he will begin to feel that there...

It’s basically the same in all periods of societies. If you belong to the majority, you can avoid thinking about lots of troubling things.”And those troubling things are all you /can/ think about when you’re...

When my reputation was at its height, classmates insulted me right to my face as I walked down the hall. When a teacher called on me, boys snickered and girls rolled their eyes. My body...

We make fun of those we’re most scared of becoming.

When I was in the third grade, I did my very best to fail every class so that the kids would like me and stop calling me a teacher’s pet. It did not work out...

Never do a wrong thing to make a friend–or to keep one.

…research tells us that we judge people in areas where we’re vulnerable to shame, especially picking folks who are doing worse than we’re doing. If I feel good about my parenting, I have no interest...

She used to write all the time,’ Elizabeth explained, ‘before she lost all that weight. Remember? When she was the butt of everyone’s jokes instead of the girl all the boys want to date?

problem” is to vex, annoy, threaten or harrass them, you are almost certainly a bigger asshole.6. You may also be twelve.7. You are not responsible for anyone else’s actions or karma, but you are responsible...

Forcing your love on someone who doesn’t love you is an emotional rape, because your victim’s heart was not aroused, you jumped into it without foreplay.

how are they going to get me?”). Persecution becomes inevitable, inescapable. And once you get into the victim mindset, you’re fucked. The bullies don’t even need to hurt you now; your poor, warped, pathetic brain...

He’s the kind of kid who, just looking at him, you know gets bullied by the older boys and takes it out on everyone who is either weaker than him or required to refrain from...