Dirk Nowitzki Quotes

When I started, guys were hazed, and for good reason.

I've gone from being bullied by jocks as a kid to being bullied by nerds as an adult.

Gym class was, of course, where the strongest, best-looking kids were made captains and chose us spazzes last. More important, it was where the figures of supposed authority allowed them to do so. Forget the work our parents did molding our minds and values. Everything fell apart as soon as we put on those maroon polyester gym suits.

Conceptually, I always took issue with bullies and those who took advantage of others, whether it was a teacher's cruelty to a student, or a student who picked fights with others.

What mean ye that ye beat my people to pieces, and grind the faces of the poor.

I worked with guys in Japan that were champions and they came over here for six months or a year and they treated them like garbage.

I'm not big on rookie hazing. I didn't wanna be hazed as a rookie, so I definitely didn't want to do it to others.

The Danes kept the English in a very degraded position, and often did them dishonor. If 100 English met one Dane, evil arose if they did not bow themselves to him; and if they came upon a bridge, they were required to wait; it was a crime if they moved before the Dane passed. In passing, every one inclined himself; whoever did not, if he was taken was shamelessly beaten. In such vileness were the English, so did the Danes vilify them.

Exploit us, but exploit us fairly.

Whatever insults human dignity, such as subhuman living conditions, arbitrary imprisonment, deportation, slavery, prostitution, the selling of women and children; as well as disgraceful working conditions, where men are treated as mere tools for profit, rather than as free and responsible persons; all these things and others of their like are infamies indeed.

If she were a man, I would have knocked her flat. Instead I whispered to her, 'Liz, you are as ugly on the inside as you are on the outside.'

Whenever there are enclosing walls, there are abuses behind them.

Whether the institution to be defended is slavery, political absolutism, or the absolutism of the head of a family, we are always expected to judge of it from its best instances; and we are presented with pictures of loving exercise of authority on one side, loving submission to it on the other

The antiquity of an abuse is no justification for its continuance.

I believe one half of the world is born for the convenience of the other half

Twin relics of barbarism – polygamy and slavery.

Your people, sir, is nothing but a great beast!

Slavery is right, just, and lawful and consequently practiced every day.

Sex and race, because they are easy, visible differences, have been the primary ways of organizing human beings into superior and inferior groups, and into the cheap labor on which this system still depends.

How many, even of the better sort, would choose to be slaves to those above them, provided they might exercise an arbitrary and tyrannical rule over all below them?

African slaves, the substratum of our society is made of the material fitted by nature for it.

I’ll tell you what’s at the bottom of it. If you can convince the lowest white man he’s better than the best colored man, he won’t notice you’re picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he’ll empty his pockets for you.

Many young people, many children, are being abused, being put down, being bullied because of their sexual orientation.

If you're in a situation where someone's mistreating you, I think it's your duty to speak out.

Did I haze the Miz? Hell yes!