Adolfo Aguilar Zinser Quotes

People come up to me, they want to fight me. I've faced a lot of people come up to me and saying racist things, hateful things, aggressive things.

Even if I don't always behave as I should, this still doesn't explain why so many people have something against me. But you know how it is. A lot of people vent themselves by coming to the stadium to yell at me. I hope it's not racism. I tell myself that it's not racism; it's because I'm tough, and I repeat this to myself.

I've had to deal with racism, sexism, rumors, malice, a little bit of everything.

I was warming up with a couple of team-mates. We were all coloured and there were monkey chants. There were about 10 of them doing it. I didn't know what to do. It had never happened to me before. I told my coach and he went mad.

I think that, as is the case offline, we should not be tolerant of hate speech, racist comments, or groups that promote hatred or intolerance in any shape or form.

The worst thing about being the laureate has been the attitude of a tiny minority of adults who haven't liked some of the things I'm supposed to have said and who have used it as an opportunity to be verbally abusive and nasty, but I haven't let it rule my world!

Bullies are just ignorant.

I hate bullies. I hate them. I'm not good enough with words to describe how much I hate them.

If they are laughing at you, how can they bludgeon you to death?

I was different. I got beat up every day.

Try not to pay attention to those who will try to make life miserable for you. There will be a lot of those - in the official capacity as well as the self-appointed.

Criticism does not constitute violence.

Hate speech is a specie of terrorism.

My family and I have been the target of constant harassment and death threats, and I have been called the most vile and hateful names imaginable.

We have all had to deal with cruel remarks from other children, and it has made us stronger as a result. But today every minor slight is analysed to determine whether or not it is racist, sexist, homophobic and so on.

I just don't like bullies. Especially hypocritical bullies.

In a way, bullying is an ordinary evil. It's hugely prevalent, all too often ignored - and being ignored, it is therefore condoned.

I would say that no one in this world can say that they've never been bullied or have violence against them.

Nobody deserves to be bullied.

I got beat up my whole life.

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

Fighting means you could lose. Bullying means you can't. A bully wants to beat somebody; he doesn't want to fight somebody.

It can be hard for the cute girl. I was blond, cute, broke. I was beat up. I was thrown inside lockers. I was burned with cigarettes. My hair was lit on fire.

One hate crime is committed approximately every hour of every day in this country.

I deal with haters on a daily basis.