Quotes on Bullying

This means more to me than any Grammy I could ever win ... It will take a village and an army, [some] countries and continents to make bullying a hate crime.

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

I've been actually really very pleased to see how much awareness was raised around bullying, and how deeply it affects everyone. You know, you don't have to be the loser kid in high school to be bullied. Bullying and being picked on comes in so many different forms.

In an average day, you may well be confronted with some species of bullying or bigotry, or some ill-phrased appeal to the general will, or some petty abuse of authority. If you have a political loyalty, you may be offered a shady reason for agreeing to a lie or a half-truth that serves some short-term purpose. Everybody devises tactics for getting through such moments; try behaving "as if" they need not be tolerated and are not inevitable.

My pain may be the reason for somebody's laugh. But my laugh must never be the reason for somebody's pain.

Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.

One's dignity may be assaulted, vandalized and cruelly mocked, but cannot be taken away unless it is surrendered.