Tragedy
Brian Head, 15, shot and killed himself in March 1994 during his high-school economics class. Head had been a longtime target for bullies because of his weight and thick glasses. His father, Bill, subsequently successfully lobbied for a law that criminalized bullying and required schools to alert parents of bullied children.
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Famous quotes containing the word tragedy:
“The great tragedy of science—the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.”
—Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–95)
“The tragedy of bold, forthright, industrious people is that they act so continuously without much thinking, that it becomes dry and empty.”
—Brenda Ueland (1891–1985)
“Man, “poor player,” succeeds better in life’s tragedy than comedy.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)