Preston Brooks Quotes

Never violate the sacredness of your individual self-respect.

I don't want to be someone's entertainment.

Even at church, people would not shake my hand.

I don't want to look at myself like I'm some superhero. But I'm not going to let people wipe their feet on football on my chest.

Middle school was what programmed me to be semi-insecure, like, all of the time. I didn’t fit in….I’d stand on the outside of the circle but I was never really in. That’s when I started to realize there’s this thing called rejection.

The desire to be different from the people we live with is sometimes the result of our rejection- real or imagined- by them.

I was considered the black sheep of the family, neighbours didn't want their kids playing with me.

I was the green monkey, the pariah. And I had no friends. Not just a few friends, or one good friend, or grudging acceptance by other misfits and outcasts. I was alone. All stinking alone, without even an imaginary playmate.

There are some persons we could not cut down to size without diminishing ourselves as well.

Self respect, Colie. If you don't have it, the world will walk all over you.

If you are capable of submitting to insult you ought to be insulted.

From now on, gang, we won't let Rudolph join in any reindeer games.

You shouldn't bear humiliations.

Being an outsider to some extent, someone who does not "fit in" with others or is rejected by them for whatever reason, makes life difficult, but it also places you at an advantage as far as enlightenment is concerned. It takes you out of unconsciousness almost by force.

I wasn't accepted because I didn't accept the drug culture that most of my peers were involved in. Now it's like a locked room.

I found myself being more and more involved with people who were rejected by society - with drug addicts, alcoholism, battered this, battered that - and I found an affinity there.

All must respect those who respect themselves.

As all error is meanness, it is incumbent on every man who consults his own dignity, to retract it as soon as he discovers it.

Anybody who's gone through puberty has understood what it feels like to be an outcast and alone.

What I’ve loved most after you, is myself: that is, my dignity and that strength which made me superior to other men. That Strength was my life. You’ve broken it with a word, so I must die.

Deal with yourself as a individual, worthy of respect and make everyone else deal with you the same way.

I never understood alienation. Alienation from what? You have to want to be part of something in order to feel alienated from it.

I didn't have any friends at school, didn't want any. I felt better being alone. I sat on a bench and watched the others play and they looked foolish to me.

If someone walks away from me, I just let them walk, and I move on to the next person.

A person fully awakened to the jewel-like dignity of their own life is capable of truly respecting that same treasure in others.