Kids will follow our lead. They will follow our example, but we’ve got to set it. … All of these young people regardless of their race, their sexual orientation, they are gifts to us. They have so much to offer and it’s just terrible to find out that kids are letting this part of their life define everything about who they are going to be.

—Michelle Obama, on Ellen today, about the responsibility adults have in fighting school bullying. She says she tells Malia and Sasha they have a responsibility to speak up if they see someone being bullied.

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