Trayvon Martin Quotes

• Trayvon Martin could have been me 35 years ago.

  Barack Obama

  Years, Trayvon, Could Have Been

  Twitter post from Jul 19, 2013

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• My main message is to the parents of Trayvon Martin. You know, if I had a son, he'd look like Trayvon.

  Barack Obama

  Son, Parent, Looks

  "When It Comes To Race, Obama Walks A Tightrope". "Morning Edition" with David Greene, www.npr.org. March 30, 2012.

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• You know, when Trayvon Martin was first shot I said that this could have been my son. Another way of saying that is Trayvon Martin could have been me 35 years ago. And when you think about why, in the African American community at least, there's a lot of pain around what happened here, I think it's important to recognize that the African American community is looking at this issue through a set of experiences and a history that doesn't go away.

  Barack Obama

  Pain, Son, Thinking

  " 'Trayvon Martin could have been me 35 years ago', Obama says" by Paul Lewis, www.theguardian.com. July 19, 2013.

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• The vision preached by my father a half-century ago was that his four little children would no longer live in a nation where they would judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. However, sadly, the tears of Trayvon Martin's mother and father remind us that, far too frequently, the color of one's skin remains a license to profile, to arrest and to even murder with no regard for the content of one's character.

  Martin Luther King III

  Mother, Children, Father

  "50 Years After March on Washington, Tens of Thousands Say Struggle for MLK’s “Dream” Continues". "Democracy Now!" with Amy Goodman, www.democracynow.org. August 26, 2013.

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• I think the hoodie is as much responsible for Trayvon Martin's death as George Zimmerman was.

  Geraldo Rivera

  Thinking, Zimmerman, Fox News

  "Geraldo Rivera: Trayvon Martin’s ‘Hoodie Is As Much Responsible For [His] Death As George Zimmerman’". www.huffingtonpost.com. March 23, 2012.

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• We have two boys. After George Zimmerman was found not guilty of killing Trayvon Martin, we had to explain to our older son, who was 12 at the time, how that could happen. Instead of hugging and consoling him, my husband pulled out a documentary about Emmett Till and showed it to him and started to talk about how the justice system works in this country - and how it often doesn't. From that conversation, our son wrote a short story about Trayvon Martin going to heaven to meet Emmett Till.

  Gina Prince-Bythewood

  Country, Husband, Son

  Source: www.mtv.com

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• Trayvon Martin, at the most, seems only to have been guilty of being himself.

  Aberjhani

  Guilty, Has Beens, Seems

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• The cure for the Michael Brown, Trayvon Martin, Tamir Rice and Eric Garner tragedies is not education or exposure. It's the Gospel. So, finally, I'M ENCOURAGED because the Gospel gives mankind hope.

  Benjamin Watson

  Giving, Tragedy, Eric

  Benjamin Watson (2015). “Under Our Skin: Getting Real about Race. Getting Free from the Fears and Frustrations that Divide Us.”, p.16, NavPress

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• If [George] Zimmerman had been arrested for domestic violence, Trayvon Martin might still be alive.

  Gloria Steinem

  Domestic Violence, Alive, Might

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• The fact is, in the minds of many, Trayvon Martin received the appropriate punishment for a true crime: He was black, male and dared to walk outside. In life, young Trayvon was just a teenager; in death, he has been transformed into a scary, lurking, suspicious, prone-to-violence spook.

  Henry Rollins

  Teenager, Punishment, Scary

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• Trayvon Martin did not need to die.

  Henry Rollins

  Needs, Trayvon, Dies

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• Over the course of the years, I've learned [that] fashion is a fascinating business about selling magic. It is done on the backs of our optimism and our insecurity. It is as much psychology as commerce. But I've also learned that every day we make split second decisions about people based on their attire and those decisions can have powerful implications - see the story of Trayvon Martin and his hoodie. It's important for us to understand how fashion works and how we connect to it.

  Robin Givhan

  Fashion, Powerful, Inspiration

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• Trayvon Martin could have been any of our sons, so I was not especially moved by that remark of President [Barack] Obama's.

  Julianne Malveaux

  Son, President, Barack

  Source: www.theskanner.com

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• I was reading the paper and saw a cartoon with Ray Kelly frisking Obama, and I was like "Wait, what's happening?" so I Googled it. For everything Obama stands for and the things he's said in the past in his books, especially with the Trayvon Martin thing - and I'm not sure if he [made his comments on Trayvon] because he was asked a question and he was trying to be diplomatic and neutral - that can't happen.

  Adepero Oduye

  Reading, Book, Past

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