Shane Koyczan Quotes

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.

I was of the type who gets bullied rather than the one who does the bullying, which I'm glad about. I'd rather be that than a bully.

Everybody experiences bullying in some way. It's not right, so we should stop it.

Obviously, I'm against bullying, but it does happen.

Children should be able to live a life free from bullying and harassment and it is time that we all took a stand against this.

I think it's really important that the anti-bullying messages get into schools and become a staple in every school.

I don't know that there's more bullying or whether it's just more talked about. It seems to me that possibly that there's been a lot of bullying all the time, but at the moment, it's something that people are talking about.

A lot of us have done bullying and didn't even realize we did it.

I'm against bullying, I hate it because I've dealt with it.

I started visiting schools and talking to kids about bullying and what to do and how to deal with it. I don't think that there is one person who has lived life without being bullied. Everybody gets bullied - whether it's cyber-bullying or to your face or behind your back.

Beatbullying's 'The Big March 2012' is such a brilliant campaign and I am very proud to be a part of it. I have been a victim of cyber bullying myself and I know firsthand just how hurtful it can be. People think that they can hide behind computers and send nasty and hurtful comments to people, and this is wrong.

I don't know anything about bullying in Huntington Beach specifically, but I would assume it's very similar to other places.

You can't be against bullying without actually doing something about it.

I don't believe in bullying in any form, but especially not on my children.

I wasn't bullied by the mean girls in high school. I'm just bullied by adults and teenagers all over the world.

Cyberbullying isn't real. But bullying and harassment certainly are real. Trust me, friends, I went to school in England. They've got bullying down to a fine art. I know, because I was one of its chief architects. I was awful to my fellow schoolboys.

Bullying is not okay. Period.

We have got to dispel this myth that bullying is just a normal rite of passage.

It's important to stand up to all forms of bullying, and it's even more important for those who are around you to be just as courageous and stand with you!

When I became a part of Be a STAR and now with Do Something coming together with WWE, we have a much further range and bigger reach to get the message of anti-bullying and the effects of bullying out there.

Everyone picked on me in school because I was in foster care.

My father died when I was 9 years old. The miserable condition of my family at that time is beyond description. My family, solitary and without influence, became at once the target of much insult and abuse.

At Girl Scouts, we are committed to raising awareness about the terrible effects of cyber bullying, and to teaching girls how to recognize the signs of bullying of any sort and extricate themselves or another from a bad situation before it spirals out of control and ends in tragedy.

It is impossible to fight bullies merely by saying they're going too far.

No one in my school liked me.