Sammi Hanratty Quotes

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

I think because bullying has really become such a problem right now, I think it's maybe going to be more impactful right now, just because of where that is in society and how much more we're hearing about it.

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

For me, growing up and going to school and not seeing any anti-bullying posters and not hearing people talk about bullying was very desolate.

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.

It's really important that people know about it and the issue in schools because it happens every day to people and it really hurts when people get bullied.

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.

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

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

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.

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

Bullying is not okay. Period.

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

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.

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.

I have suffered from bullying in many ways, from bullying in school due to my disability in reading, to digital abuse that I deal with on a daily basis. I'd like to tell the kids that are being bullied that no one should have to deal with the abuse, ever!

The whole bullying issue has really struck a nerve with me. It affects so many different types of people at a vital time in their lives.