Zimmerman verdict: quotes and reaction

"You don't go out looking for trouble!!! Neighborhood watch means WATCH & report! Not initiate & take things into your on hands!"

Tweet from Vikings running back Adrian Peterson

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"We are all Trayvon Martin"

Banner carried in march in Oakland, Calif.

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"Whether they die at the hands of a vigilante or another African American male, we must all commit ourselves to eliminating the conditions in our community that cause too many people to see young African American males as 'threats' instead of seeing the promise within each child."

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"Trayvon Benjamin Martin is dead because he and other black boys and men like him are not seen as a person, but a ­problem."

The Rev. Raphael G. Warnock, senior pastor at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta

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"The death of Trayvon Martin was a tragedy. Not just for his family, or for any one community, but for America. I know this case has elicited strong passions. And in the wake of the verdict, I know those passions may be running even higher. But we are a nation of laws, and a jury has spoken."

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"I think that things would have been different if George Zimmerman was black for this reason — he never would have been charged with a crime."

Defense attorney Mark O'Mara

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"While the verdict may be legal, a system that doesn't take into account what happened is a broken legal system. Everyone should feel about this, whether you're Asian-American or African-American."

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"He's [George Zimmerman] going to be looking over his shoulder the rest of his life."

Zimmerman's brother, Robert Zimmerman Jr.

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"The case touched so many chords, it became a contemporary media event as people tuned in to find out if their view of reality would be affirmed. The advances in social media and technology made it possible for people to follow the case but also debate it."

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"They [Trayvon Martin's parents] are trying to make sense of it. They want people to know that they're going to continue to fight for the legacy of their son, that he had every right to walk home from the 7-Eleven and not expect to be profiled and followed by a strange man."