Today we charge George Zimmerman with murder in the…

Black Lives Matter started from a post that I put on Facebook after the acquittal of George Zimmerman. I woke up in the middle…

— Alicia Garza

“Before the president spoke, George Zimmerman was arguably the most reviled man in America. After the president spoke, Zimmerman became the patron saint of…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

Before we condemn the jurors who acquitted George Zimmerman, we should remember that they were asked to do something extraordinary. They were asked to…

— Alafair Burke

“Remember a Florida judge instructing a jury to focus only on the moment when George Zimmerman and Trayvon Marton interacted, thus transforming a seventeen-year-old,…

— Carol Anderson Jesmyn Ward

The same kinds of stereotypes and hunches that George Zimmerman used when deciding that, you know, Trayvon Martin seemed like a threat in his…

— Michelle Alexander

What we acknowledged as a nation during the one-and-a-half year trial of George Zimmerman is that the white majority's public imagination of black people…

— Patrisse Cullors

“The irony of American history is the tendency of good white Americanas to presume racial innocence. Ignorance of how we are shaped racially is…

— Tim Wise

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

— Geraldo Rivera

George Zimmerman is a foot soldier in a rapidly privatizing country. He is a new centurion of 21st-century America. Law enforcement is tied down…

— Henry Rollins

We have two boys. After George Zimmerman was found not guilty of killing Trayvon Martin, we had to explain to our older son, who…

— Gina Prince-Bythewood

I don't like what George Zimmerman did, and I hate that Trayvon Martin is dead. But I also can understand why Zimmerman was suspicious…

— Richard Cohen

The night that George Zimmerman was acquitted, I think, for black people all over the world, there was a collective feeling of incredible grief…

— Alicia Garza

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

— Gloria Steinem

The media needs to stop trying to dehumanize Trayvon Martin when they need to focus on why George Zimmerman is free.

— Enhance Dreams

“Forget the Syria debate; we need a debate on why we are always debating on whether to bomb someone. Because we're starting to look…

— Bill Maher