Quotes About Bullying

You have to stand up to the enemy. Don't live intimidated by a bully that has no power over you. Ignore the roar. Quit believing the threats, living worried, letting all the negative things play in your mind.

All my life people have made fun of me because I was so skinny. They kind of made me feel bad about it sometimes. I worried that maybe people will think I am really anorexic.

I went through a lot of bullying early on. Girls made my life a living hell. We had come to America from a different country. My brother and I had accents. It was very tough.

Sometimes people are mean because they feel insecure about themselves.

There was a girl. Her name was Angie. She was fat.

Mrs. Munt—such is human nature—determined that she would champion the lovers. She was not going to be bullied by a severe young man.

O colégio interno de] Sunnington foi a etapa seguinte na carreia de Maurice. (...) Tendo sido maltratado enquanto caloiro, maltratava outros que parecessem infelizes ou fracos, não porque fosse cruel, mas porque era o que se devia fazer. ------------------- p. 22, MAURICE, E.M.FORSTER

But then, he thought, most politicians are small and shabby, the sort of people who have been bullied at school. That's why they become politicians.

As for myself, I felt nothing but pity for Marc Bellamy. I'd been through the private-education system myself – another version of the full English – and knew only too well how the casual cruelty and the pack mentality that he had described could stay with you for the rest of your life.

The truth was important. The truth mattered. It mattered more than the fact that he was only twelve and that his story was completely preposterous. People like Granny, all bullies in fact, only managed to survive because they lived behind the truth. Once people knew them for what they were, they would be powerless.

Harassment is one of puberty's darkest, most unreported rites of passage.

While Matt Bevin insults and bullies educators, I care about showing our teachers respect, protecting their pensions, and making public education a top priority.

I've been thinking that school, or certainly the traditional English public school model, is like a prison, in that you can't get out and it is hierarchical. As a result they have a lot of bullying. On the other hand if you mix ages and academic ability this is less of a problem.

People think it must be wonderful being in movies or on television, but it can be very tough on a child. I had two friends in elementary school. That was it. There was a clique of girls that were brutal to me. They pulled some very mean stuff. My two friends got me through it. Without them, I would have been all alone.

My older brother used to punch me all the time because I was a nerd.

I never got beaten up, because I was a wisecracking jokester. I could make a bully laugh before he delivered a punch.

Seriously, I faced a lot of anti-Semitism playing hockey as a kid. It motivated me to play well and to punch everyone who was anti-Semitic. I was taunted and called names. I'd either beat them with a goal or with my fists.

The fact that I was black and desirous to do my work, the other kids would call me a coconut, as if I were somehow attempting to be white. The bullying was real: I'd get punched, spat at, terrible things.

If we're going to make a real dent in the bullying issue, we're going to have to address the bullies themselves: find ways to help empower them that don't include allowing them to be predators or to simply be punished.

I was bullied a lot... doing anything overly well was punished by the kids.

I was picked on a lot as a kid because of the way I dressed. Metal and punk music got me through that. I know a lot of people don't understand it, but I love metal.

I went to a very mean school and was bullied like crazy. I was a bit of a goth with purple hair, and I was also part of the drama group, which was filled with actors and writers and wasn't really accepted by the rest of the school.

I'm not going to be bullied or pushed around by the group of the day. You've got to have political courage. You've got to have your own inner beliefs.

Dealing with bullies when I was in sixth and seventh grade has made me a better football player, believe it or not. You have to come to a point when you're like, 'I've had enough, and I'm not going to be kicked around and pushed around anymore.'