We are supposed to call poison medicine and we wonder why we’re always sick.

Knowing what’s right doesn’t mean much unless you do what’s right.

When people see you’re happy doing what you’re doing, it sort of takes the power away from them to tease you about it.

And really–I would rather suck truck fumes than deal with this sort of shit forever. Mom says that Nader is a loser who will grow up to be a loser and that I’ll understand when...

Remember that an act of hatred belittles the one who acts it out – but not the one it is done against unless that person allows it to. Each person who reaches out in love...

Banning books is just another form of bullying. It’s all about fear and an assumption of power. The key is to address the fear and deny the power.

If I had been armed with a feminist understanding that no girl deserves to be called a slut, perhaps I would have fought back by reporting the harassment to my school’s headmistress or another school...

There will be many times in your lives— at school, and more particularly when you are a grown up—when people will distract or divert you from what needs to be done. You may even welcome...

Our victimization in a way, can turn us into bullies because, the other person isn’t doing something that we want and we get hurt. That way we get to bully that person and tell them...

For in today’s generation of teenagers finding acceptance is hard, especially for those who dare to be different-then it’s impossible.

Just as we have created a society in which it would be unthinkable to light up a cigarette in the Kennedy Center lobby, we can create a society where it is unthinkable that a child...

you know what her punishment is for tormenting you way back when?” he said.I looked at him.He said, “her punishment is being her,

Who knows.

But the coconut is also a symbol of resilience, Samar. Even in the conditions where there’s very little nourishment and even less nurturance, it flourishes, growing taller than most of the plants around it.

I finally understood what could drive kids to show up with guns and shoot up their schools.

If you’re horrible to me, I’m going to write a song about it, and you won’t like it. That’s how I operate.

People who repeatedly attack your confidence and self-esteem are quite aware of your potential, even if you are not.

Nonetheless, with tears coming to her eyes she was also recalling every time that she had been cruelly teased and bullied for no reason that she could relate to. None of it had ever been...

Sure, you can scribble out the words or try to paint over them, but beneath the layers of paint and ink, they’re still there, branded to our cores like initials carved in a tree.

Listen up, Little Miss Fun Hater. Off the record, if it wasn’t for our school’s strict but smarmy anti-bullying laws, I would bitch-slap you into next summer.

I just saved you from having to find a nice way to say no to the leg dragger.

Often the right path is the one that may be hardest for you to follow. But the hard path is also the one that will make you grow as a human being.

Bullying is an attack upon the runts of the litter – the weak of the species, and it is predicated on a lack of bond with the parents. If a child has a secure bond...

You wouldn’t think there is anything life threatening about speech impediments, but let me tell you, there is nothing more dangerous than being a kid with a stutter and a lisp.

He was not crying for the pain they had caused him, nor for the humiliation he had suffered when they looked at his foot, but with rage at himself because, unable to stand the torture,...

Overcoming abuse doesn’t just happen, It takes positive steps everyday. Let today be the day you start to move forward.

When people look at me, they automatically assume I’m dark and weird. Why can’t they see the truth? I’m just a girl, trying to find my place in the world.

People often talk about the pain and degradation of being bullied. No one really talks about the cost. Not that money is more important than those other things, but having to pay the expenses of...

J_Doe032692 wrote: I am not a thin person. However this does not give people the right to taunt me, calling me ugly and worthless, telling me to kill myself because no one will ever want...

Clover was on the verge of tears but fought hard to keep them back. Never let them see you cry. Any sign of weakness put them into a feeding frenzy.

I was the nicest person you’d ever want to know,” Alex recalls, “but the world wasn’t that way. The problem was that if you were just a nice person, you’d get crushed. I refused to...

Drowning,Drowning on the land,Drowning,It doesn’t end.

The old Amy, the girl of the big laugh and the easy ways, literally shed herself, a pile of skin and soul on the floor, and stepped this new, brittle, bitter Amy … a razor-wire...

If the apperance doesn’t scare you look out for the mind . If that doesn’t nothing will .

So now, not only did my best friend leave, but the cheerleaders and their mindless followers assumed I was personally responsible for the petition (which, yeah, I was) and started being openly rude to me...

A lot of people have it in for me. It’s practically a school sport.

If they don`t like you for being yourself, be yourself even more

A lot of people believe that mental illness does not affect our children within the school system. But the truth is that a lot of bullying stems from untreated or poorly treated mental and behavioral...

Bullies are just men who don’t know they are cowards, of course.

Don’t you think it’s sad some people are only remembered by the graffiti about them on the bathroom stalls?

There’s always this one girl. She’s desperate and she’s weird and she’s jealous, and you’re stuck with her, no matter how hard you try to get her off your back. Just throw some really fucked-up...

If someone talks trash, you can just trash them back. Clamming up in a corner makes the thing half your fault.””[…] There are people out there who get crushed by that logic.

My mother says we’re supposed to make mistakes. That’s the way we learn.” Rocky Ryan in Bully At Ambush Corner.

I don’t know anyone who remembers meeting their parents when they were a baby so i’m just like everybody else. -Zoey (100% Real)

Every time you post something online, you have a choice.You can either make it something that adds to the happiness levels in the world—or you can make it something that takes away.I tried to add...

It doesn’t prove anything except that you’re bullying us. Which, as I recall, is a sign of cowardice.

You’re a survivor because everyday you make a choice not to be governed by their harsh words or actions. No one has the right to take away your happiness.

Things will get easier, people’s minds will change, and you should be alive to see it.

People have been bullied in school, and it’s their right to stop and take a stand for what they believe in

What a desperate, pathetic fool I was. Time after time, my “friends” had shown me their true colors. Yet, I still wanted to believe they were sorry for causing me pain. p. 128