Found this quote via the Finnish anti-bullying website KiVa and their Parents’ Guide:

In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies but the silence of our friends.

– Martin Luther King, Jr., The Trumpet of Conscience, Steeler Lecture, November 1967.

This led me on a long path of King’s other quotes.

Simple and naive question – what allows mean people so much power and enjoyment? Why after 100,000 years of human history is this still a problem?

I have to say I don’t remember the silence of my friends, I do remember the comments of the bullies. I also remember my own silence as I saw my friends being bullied.