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#1

“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

tags: bullying, humor, inspirational, people, song, song-writing, taylor-swift

1088 likes

#2

“One's dignity may be assaulted, vandalized and cruelly mocked, but it can never be taken away unless it is surrendered.”
― Michael J. Fox

tags: abuse, bullying, courage, dignity, saving-milly, self-esteem, strength

1233 likes

#3

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

tags: ambition, bullying, character, moral-courage

1036 likes

#5

“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”
― Simple Plan

tags: bullying, simple-plan, welcome-to-my-life

313 likes

#6

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

tags: bullying, inspirational, kids, thoughts-on-life

335 likes

#7

“Could a scar be like the rings of a tree, reopened with each emotional season?”
― Magenta Periwinkle, Cutting Class

tags: bullying, coming-of-age, cutting, cutting-class, first-love, geeks, goth, love, magenta-periwinkle, nerds, sentimental-bulls-t, teen-agnst, weirdo, weirdos, young-adult

295 likes

#8

“Life is a ﬁght, but not everyone’s a ﬁghter. Otherwise, bullies would be an endangered species.”
― Andrew Vachss, Terminal

tags: bullies, bullying

221 likes

#9

“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.”
― Wendy Mass, Every Soul a Star

tags: bullying, power, tease

234 likes

#10

“Never do a wrong thing to make a friend--or to keep one.”
― Robert E. Lee

tags: bullying, means-justifying-the-ends, moral-courage

256 likes

#11

“Each of us is a book waiting to be written, and that book, if written, results in a person explained.”
― Thomas M. Cirignano, The Constant Outsider: Memoirs of a South Boston Mechanic

tags: boston, boston-harbor, boston-history, bully, bullying, castle-island, cirignano, discrimination, dorchester, drinking-and-driving, fitting-in, forced-busing, gas-shortage, irish-mob, italian, memoir, murder, nonfiction, osracism, south-boston, southie, true-crime, whitey-bulger

221 likes

#12

“Bullying builds character like nuclear waste creates superheroes. It's a rare occurrence and often does much more damage than endowment.”
― Zack W. Van

tags: adversity, bullying, strength, truthful, weakness

161 likes

#13

“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.”
― Karen Mueller Coombs, Bully at Ambush Corner

tags: bullies, bullying, family-relationships, girls-who-bully, music, sibling-relationships, viola

139 likes

#14

“You only get to walk variations of the same lines everyone has already drawn for you.”
― Courtney Summers, Some Girls Are

tags: bullying, high-school

122 likes

#15

“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 self-esteem issues into the mix and you have Kara.”
― Courtney Summers, Some Girls Are

tags: bullying, jealousy, self-esteem

70 likes

#16

“What makes you a real girl or boy is that no one laughs at you. If you are imitation or unreal, the rules give you a right to exist provided you do what the real ones or brutes say. What makes you into me or Charles Morgan is that the rules allow all the girls to be better than me and all the boys better than Charles Morgan.”
― Diana Wynne Jones, Witch Week

tags: bullying, childhood-is-terrible

37 likes

#17

“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.”
― Neesha Meminger, Shine, Coconut Moon

tags: bullying, family, name-calling, relationships, self-worth

52 likes

#18

“I must get my soul back from you; I am killing my flesh without it.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

tags: enthralled, obsession, slavery

2178 likes

#19

“Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.”
― Abraham Lincoln

tags: american-presidents, freedom, slavery, wisdom

1578 likes

#20

“I strongly believe that love is the answer and that it can mend even the deepest unseen wounds. Love can heal, love can console, love can strengthen, and yes, love can make change.”
― Somaly Mam, The Road of Lost Innocence: The True Story of a Cambodian Heroine

tags: abuse, love, rape, sad, sadness, slavery, trafficking

236 likes

#21

“But one of the worst results of being a slave and being forced to do things is that when there is no one to force you any more you find you have almost lost the power of forcing yourself.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Horse and His Boy

tags: motivation, slavery

305 likes

#22

“Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves, and, under a just God cannot retain it.”
― Abraham Lincoln

tags: freedom, slavery

122 likes

#23

“As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.”
― Abraham Lincoln

tags: democracy, equality, slavery

159 likes

#24

“Being vegan is easy. Are there social pressures that encourage you to continue to eat, wear, and use animal products? Of course there are. But in a patriarchal, racist, homophobic, and ableist society, there are social pressures to participate and engage in sexism, racism, homophobia, and ableism. At some point, you have to decide who you are and what matters morally to you. And once you decide that you regard victimizing vulnerable nonhumans is not morally acceptable, it is easy to go and stay vegan”
― Gary L. Francione

tags: abolitionist, exploitation, moral-imperative, moral-obligation, nonviolence, slavery, speciesism, veganism

309 likes

#25

“Your answer is the logical, coherent answer an absolutely normal person would give: It's a tie! A lunatic, however, would say that what I have around my neck is a ridiculous, useless bit of colored cloth tied in a very complicated way, which makes it harder to get air into your lungs and difficult to turn your neck. I have to be careful when I'm anywhere near a fan, or I could be strangled by this bit of cloth.
If a lunatic were to ask me what this tie is for, I would have to say, absolutely nothing. It's not even purely decorative, since nowadays it's become a symbol of slavery, power, aloofness. The only really useful function a tie serves is the sense of relief when you get home and take it off; you feel as if you've freed yourself from something, though quite what you don't know.”
― Paulo Coelho, Veronika Decides to Die

tags: freedom, slavery, tie

47 likes

#26

“To be given dominion over another is a hard thing; to wrest dominion over another is a wrong thing; to give dominion of yourself to another is a wicked thing.”
― Toni Morrison, A Mercy

tags: freedom, slavery

94 likes

#27

“Not kill us," Pigeon corrected. "She was mainly just trying to turn us into mindless slaves.”
― Brandon Mull, The Candy Shop War

tags: humor, slavery

30 likes

#28

“I’ll let you see the door is open, so you know I’m open to the idea that you can leave anytime you want. So long as you are able to pick the lock on your handcuffs while you are blindfolded. ”
― Jarod Kintz, This Book Has No Title

20 likes

#29

“Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves”
― Abraham Lincoln, Complete Works - Volume XII

tags: freedom, liberty, slavery

2204 likes

#30

“Performance enhancements are most impressive when used by that sedentary athlete, the videogamer. After he turns to hitchhiking in disgrace, his giant thumbs can take him anywhere.”
― Bauvard, Some Inspiration for the Overenthusiastic

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