When I first went to kindergarten kids asked me what I was. I did not understand-I’m a person. They explained that I look a little different and it is not as easy to tell which...

[On hearing that 86% of gay teens have experienced harassment] Eighty-six percent? Eighty-six per-fuckin-cent WERE harassed?! That means fourteen per-fuckin-cent WEREN’T harassed? WHAT?!At MY school a hundred percent of the children – gay, straight, transgendered,...

Controlling people do not like to be controlled. Controlling people do not like to have their agendas obstructed.

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

Don’t think that what you say fleetingly to one man be harmless. Your fleeting words can travel so fast and so lightly that soon enough they will end up hitting someone so hard that they...

people have been made fun of for too long, not because there is anything wrong with them, it’s just the people, i have been bullied everyday, people speaking things that aren’t even true about me...

This book is a labor of love. It is dedicated to people who have cried themselves to sleep because they were ‘different’. It is also a celebration of the ‘inner outcast’ in all of us,...

My hair is not the shiniest of bobsMy eyes are not the brightest in the roomMy figure will not get me modeling jobsMy smile will not bring young boys to their doom.But do I cry...

Bullying has to stop, you will regret what you said and did to someone’s life.

I had to stay weak, and stay silent, because if i say one logical thing I shallbe teased until the last breath.

Every man dies. Not every man truly lives.” Sir William Wallace

You have to see everyone in relationship to you. Just because you understand the shit in someone else’s life doesn’t mean you don’t stand up for your own

A bully hides his fears with fake bravado. That is the opposite of self-assertiveness.

At the time I thought the winner in an argument was the person who put forward the most logical support for his position. Of course, this isn’t true. Human history, from gardening disputes to genocide,...

I wish I knew what I looked like in other peoples eyes.

Everyone I say stop bullying it is sad and tears someones heart apart and next thing they do is Suicide because they think that is the right next step!If you are a Person who gets...

Everyone at his table laughs.They know I can hear them.They just don’t care.

do not let others decide how much you blow your decide where you want to raise

Bullying is a horrible thing. It sticks with you forever. It poisons you. But only if you let it.

Smiles and kindness bring so much more than money can buy. Help and acceptance are all that is needed when you see someone cry.Open your eyes, and let everyone be free. Free to be you...

No. I didn’t say you could talk yet.You made me feel like crap. I didn’t fit into your little definition of perfect and you never let me forget it. I can assure you there is...

we wouldn’t learn anything worth knowing.” Rocky Ryan and his viola teacher, Mr. Veraldi, in Bully at Ambush Corner.

You are real! Everyone has to be different or the world would be really boring. If we all looked the same, then no one could tell us apart. -Janelle

Most parents try really hard to give their kids the best possible life. They give them the best food and clothes they can afford, take their own kind of take on training kids to be...

Now, I’ve always known that there were bullies in the world. We’ve seen a lot of it in politics lately as well as in daily life. You see it where people who may be stronger,...

It is the selfish parents who are to blame. Pay attention, be involved in your children’s lives. They are your legacy, your only hope.

The hard part about one being tough yet meek is the illusion of being a punching bag.

And I kind of like the Teen Rebels; they seem to be better than the Bullying Trio. Still, watch your backs, rebels!

….stood there and watched and didn’t do a thing to help me.

When you know truly know that God loves you it won’t matter when others don’t. And when you know truly know that God accepts you it won’t matter when others won’t.

No, you don’t know what it’s likeWhen nothing feels all rightYou don’t know what it’s likeTo be like meTo be hurtTo feel lostTo be left out in the darkTo be kicked when you’re downTo feel...

I thank the bullies who bullied me in many ways they taught how not to treat other human beings, not to manipulate, to not to lack empathy, to not lack morals, not to to abuse...

Once upon a time i was bullied sucks but I move on with it, Now I just want to see them, and kick their ass’s.

When the Washington Post telephoned me at home on Valentine’s Day 1989 to ask my opinion about the Ayatollah Khomeini’s fatwah, I felt at once that here was something that completely committed me. It was,...

No, it really isn’t, but trust me, getting divorced and having to start over is the least in life that isn’t fair. I had to watch the parents of a way too young girl realize...

The small words hurt the most.

The TV said you should ignore bullies and they would stop harassing you. In practice this worked about half the time. The other half, you ended up with two tall boys shadowing you through a...

He had put his hand up in class, a declaration of existence, a claim that he knew something. And that was forbidden to him. They could give a number of reasons for why they had...

I was taught at a tender age that Bullying had nothing to do with me; instead it had everything to do with the heartache of the person doing the bullying.

If you see someone being bullied, make it stop. Why is that so hard for us to do?