Mercedes Schlapp Quotes

Nobody is taking my lunch money.

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.

You can't come up and attack someone because of free speech.

Bullies are always cowards.

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

For a number of years I was relentlessly pursued by 10 to 15 men, almost daily. Spat at, verbally abused.

I've been chased. I've been pushed. I've been screamed at. I've been verbally abused. I've been afraid for my safety. But I did it all in the name of entertainment.

I'm a little girl; no one wants to beat up on me.

I'm accustomed to being harassed.

My mum wouldn't let me go outside. Coming back from school, the gang men sometimes would say things, but I would walk by, never answer, and my mum would go tell them leave me alone.

People could be really horrible, you know? They would threaten my parents.

I have learnt that bullies use fear and intimidation as their primary weapons.

I don't think anybody should be subject to any sort of harassment in any way, shape, or form.

It doesn't prove anything except that you're bullying us. Which, as I recall, is a sign of cowardice.

There is a cowardly propensity in the human heart that delights in oppressing somebody else, and in the gratification of this base desire we always select a victim that can be outraged with safety.

A bully fights people littler and weaker than he is because he thinks it's fun.

Donald [Trump] has had a long career of using great wealth and power trying to bully others.

I had life threats, because people accused me of approaching Brando as God and his son was Jesus. I literally had people saying my blood would run in the streets for doing that.

The terrorist seeks to smash the most fundamental liberty of all: the right to lead our everyday lives on the basic assumption of safety.

Only a coward will use a gun to protect and get respect for themselves.

Intimidation, harassment and violence have no place in a democracy.

You know, violence, I think, knocks on everyone's door.

We won't tolerate abuses and crimes made every day in the name of freedom of speech. That is freedom of extortion and blackmail.

If anyone has it rough at Guantanamo, it is the guards. They are constantly harassed and threatened by some of these terrorists. Prisoners tell guards, we know where your families are. We know where your wife is, your children, and we are going to kill them.

When you walk through a bad neighborhood, you don't want a poodle by your side. You want a Rottweiler.