Sybrina Fulton Quotes

Thinking about justice and mercy and grace, Frederick Douglass said, “I prayed for twenty years. Nothing happened until I got off my knees and started marching with my feet.” And that’s the role of the church. We already prayed about it. Now let’s take action on it. You

When Chad’s football game ended, Brandy and I headed to a surprise birthday dinner for one of her friends from high school, leaving Trayvon with Chad and my nephew Steve, who everybody calls “Boobie.

I find myself thinking about all the racial injustices that continue to happen today. Every time someone is murdered, it’s a reminder that someone’s child, sister, or brother is being taken from us in the same way my son was taken from me.

History was repeating itself. In 1955, two men who would admit to killing Emmett Till in an interview one year later were found not guilty by a jury of their peers. Just shy of sixty years later, the price of killing an unarmed innocent Black child continued to be the same—free of charge.

After jurors failed to convict Zimmerman on the grounds that he had the right to “stand his ground,” it became clear that to the jurors, Trayvon Martin wasn’t Sybrina Fulton’s baby boy. He was a walking embodiment of white women’s worst nightmare.