Subject: Tweets/Quotes for Sharing (Hillary on Ferguson, MO)
From: Burns Strider <[email-masked]>
To: CTRFriendsFamily <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2014 18:40:11 -0400
List-Id: <CTRFriendsFamily.americanbridge.org>

The Tweets, links (all to video of her remarks) and quotes are from today
as Secretary Clinton, making her first public remarks since prior to the
tragic events in Ferguson, MO, spoke honestly and assuringly from the
standpoint of a parent, a leader and a fellow American.

Please share with your friends and contacts by Tweeting and posting the
video and quotes.

Let us know if we can be helpful.

Thanks, Burns and Jessica

Watch @HillaryClinton’s remarks on situation in #Ferguson, MO:
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2014/08/28/hillary-clinton-breaks-silence-on-ferguson/

WATCH: @HillaryClinton comments on #Ferguson:
http://www.cnn.com/video/data/2.0/video/us/2014/08/28/nr-sot-hillary-clinton-comments-ferguson.cnn.html
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.@HillaryClinton says #Ferguson points to inequities in the American
justice system:
http://www.cnn.com/video/data/2.0/video/us/2014/08/28/nr-sot-hillary-clinton-comments-ferguson.cnn.html
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"...as a mother, as a human being, my heart just broke for his family."
@HillaryClinton on Michael Brown #Ferguson
http://www.cnn.com/video/data/2.0/video/us/2014/08/28/nr-sot-hillary-clinton-comments-ferguson.cnn.html

*HILLARY CLINTON COMMENTS ON FERGUSON: HIGHLIGHTS*

*BACKGROUND: Today, Hillary Clinton spoke at a summit in San Francisco and
discussed the situation in Ferguson, Missouri. Below are some highlights
from her remarks:*

·         “Watching the recent funeral for Michael Brown, as a mother, as a
human being, my heart just broke for his familybecause losing a child is
every parent's greatest fear and an unimaginable loss.”

·         “This is what happens when the bonds of trust and respect that
hold any community together fray. Nobody wants to see our streets look like
a war zone, not in America. We are better than that.”

·         “We cannot ignore the inequities that persist in our
justice system. Inequities that undermine our most deeply held values of
fairness and equality.”

·         “Imagine what we would feel and what we would do if white drivers
were three times as likely to be searched by police during a traffic stop
as black drivers, instead of the other way around. If white offenders
received prison sentences ten percent longer than black offenders for the
same crimes. If a third of all white men – just look at this room and take
one-third – went to prison during their lifetime. Imagine that. That is the
reality in the lives of so many of our fellow Americans and so many of
the communities in which they live.”

·         “I applaud President Obama for sending the Attorney General
to Ferguson and demanding a thorough and speedy investigation. That’s both
appropriate and necessary to find out what happened, to see that justice
is done, to help this community begin healing itself.”

·         “It was 51 years ago today that Dr. Martin Luther King,
Jr. called us to live out the true meaning of our creed, to make the dream
real for all Americans. And that mission is as fiercely urgent today as
when he stood on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in the hot August
sun all those years ago. So we have a lot of work to do together.”