When you hold people up for ridicule, you have to take responsibility when other people act on it.

messing” with me! That implies light teasing or slight opprobrious behavior. I haven’t had lunch in the cafeteria in two and half years for fear of going home with some part of it smeared across...

The dilemma I was faced with was one every parent faces sooner or later: you want to defend your child, of course; you stand up for your child, but you mustn’t do it all too...

What makes you a real girl or boy is that no one laughs at you. If you are imitation or unreal, the rules give you a right to exist provided you do what the real...

It was the first time I discovered that some girls actually sneak out of the house during slumber parties and meet up with boys. I would’ve never known if I hadn’t gone to the bathroom...

Dear Girls Across the Globe,Let’s stop body-shaming each other with hurtful comments about how another girl looks or doesn’t look. We are all beautiful in our own unique way; so let’s speak about each other...

One’s dignity may be assaulted, vandalized and cruelly mocked, but it can never be taken away unless it is surrendered.

Tumble me down, and I will sitUpon my ruines (smiling yet:)Teare me to tatters; yet I’le bePatient in my necessitie.Laugh at my scraps of cloathes, and shunMe, as a fear’d infection:Yet scarre-crow-like I’le walk as...

You aren’t those words. You aren’t the shouts and names. You aren’t the awful things spat at you like flavorless gum. You aren’t the punches or the bruises they cause. You aren’t the blood running...

The point is: have you ever noticed how we crush a cockroach without further worry and feel no remorse in spite of being in fact terminating a life? That’s it. We do so because we...

Don’t hate the bullies. Experience tells me that hating them, or being angry with them, will always make it worse. Instead, put your arm around them. Love them. Tell them that they are valuable. Tell...

Not all forms of abuse leave bruises.

Pain, sorrow, anger, these are all powerful emotions. Allowed to rule and left unchecked, they would destroy you. However, through training and willpower you can choose to harness those feelings and use them for something...

Bullying HurtsThe place where it began is told to be the school.The reason it started, was to try to be cool.There’s children staying home, in fear of the painThe possibility of loss is greater than...

I’m at a camp with over 100 girls 11 to 13 years old, around my own age, and I feel like my parents are my only friends. -Mackenzie

He closed the locker quickly so no one would see the damage. For some reason, he felt ashamed.

Bullying builds character like nuclear waste creates superheroes. It’s a rare occurrence and often does much more damage than endowment.

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...