For too long, our society has shrugged off bullying by labeling it a ‘rite of passage’ and by asking students to simply ‘get over it.’ Those attitudes need to change. Every day, students are bullied into silence and are afraid to speak up. Let’s break this silence and end school bullying.

If they don’t like you for being yourself, be yourself even more.

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

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

People who love themselves, don’t hurt other people. The more we hate ourselves, the more we want others to suffer.

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

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.

I wish every day could be Halloween. We could all wear masks all the time. Then we could walk around and get to know each other before we got to see what we looked like under the masks.

Could a scar be like the rings of a tree, reopened with each emotional season?

What if the kid you bullied at school, grew up, and turned out to be the only surgeon who could save your life?

If your sincerely-held religious beliefs require you to bully children, then your beliefs are fucked up.

Freedom of religion does not give you the right to physically or verbally assault people.

Bullying is not okay. Period.

“No, you don’t know what it’s like
When nothing feels all right
You don’t know what it’s like
To be like me
To be hurt
To feel lost
To be left out in the dark
To be kicked when you’re down
To feel like you’ve been pushed around
To be on the edge of breaking down
And no one’s there to save you
No, you don’t know what it’s like
Welcome to my life”

“If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse, and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality.”
― Desmond Tutu

“Knowing what’s right doesn’t mean much unless you do what’s right.”
― Theodore Roosevelt

“I would rather be a little nobody, then to be a evil somebody.”
― Abraham Lincoln

“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.”
― Taylor Swift

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

There’s a reason why bullying takes such a strong form online. People don’t have to push back as much as they would in real life.