Silence
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When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber.
Silence is a source of great strength.
For those of us who aren't great with people, we figure that silence is always the safest bet. If you're an introvert, you spend so much of your time wishing that other people would just shut the hell up that you figure you're doing everyone a favor.
The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people.
No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.
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.
