"It was a few Americans that made enough noise until the rest of the world heard it and shared their outrage. Crossing all lines of race, class, religion and age — millions of people united in a common cause." —John [...]
"These laws don’t seem to have any good effect in terms of deterring crime, and the one thing they do is tend to increase the number of homicides." —David Hemenway
"I think the prosecution has to show that Zimmerman engaged Trayvon Martin. That Zimmerman was armed, Trayvon Martin was not. And that Zimmerman shot him at a point where he had complete control of the situation."
As news broke of the second-degree murder charge against George Zimmerman and his subsequent arrest for the killing of Trayvon Martin, it's important to remember that trends don't always tell the whole story.
"Lay people don’t need to know all the nuances of second-degree murder and first-degree murder. What they know is that an unarmed child was killed and that they want to see justice served." — Jenée Desmond-Harris
"'The talk' ... a series of guides about how to behave in a society in which you will be looked upon with suspicion." — Corey Dade on a right of passage for black male teenagers in America
