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Keep in mind, when two enemies are talking, they're not fighting, they're talking. They might be yelling and screaming, but at least they're talking. It's when the talking ceases that the ground becomes fertile for violence.
— Daryl Davis
I don't believe that Donald Trump is a racist, per se. But some of the things that he does, some of the rhetoric that he uses, attracts racists and that sets the tone. And of course, you are judged by the company you keep.
— Daryl Davis
I never set out to convert anyone in the Klan. I just set out to get an answer to my question: 'How can you hate me when you don't even know me.'
— Daryl Davis
If you spend five minutes with your worst enemy - it doesn't have to be about race, it could be about anything... you will find that you both have something in common. As you build upon those commonalities, you're forming a relationship and as you build about that relationship, you're forming a friendship.
— Daryl Davis
You cannot hate the hate out of a person. You cannot beat the hate out of a person. But you can love it out of a person.
— Daryl Davis
Racism is a cancer. You cannot ignore it and it'll go away. If you ignore cancer, it simply metastasizes and consumes the whole body.
— Daryl Davis
People learn racism through dialogue. Somebody tells them about it. So if you can learn it through dialogue, you can also unlearn it through dialogue.
— Daryl Davis
I have a former Baltimore City police officer's uniform and his robe and hood. He was the grand dragon, which means state leader. His day job, what paid his bills, he was a Baltimore City police officer, not an undercover officer in the Klan gathering intelligence, but a bona fide Klansmen on the Baltimore City police force.
— Daryl Davis
There are a lot of well meaning white liberals. And a lot of well meaning black liberals. But you know what? When all they do is sit around and preach to the choir it does absolutely no good. If you're not a racist it doesn't do any good for me to meet with you and sit around and talk about how bad racism is.
— Daryl Davis
1983 - Country music had made a resurgence in this country so I joined a country band. I was the only black guy in the band and consequently, usually the only black guy in many of the places where we played.
— Daryl Davis
I decided to go around the country and sit down with Klan leaders and Klan members to find out: How can you hate me when you don't even know me?
— Daryl Davis
When something bothers me, I try to learn about it.
— Daryl Davis
Always keep the lines of communication open with your adversaries.
— Daryl Davis
Believe it or not, the best way to put somebody at ease or bring them to a level of trust is to know as much if not more about them than they know about themselves or the organization to which they belong.
— Daryl Davis
If you have an adversary, you don't have to respect what they're saying, but respect their right to say it.
— Daryl Davis
The most important thing I learned is that when you are actively learning about someone else you are passively teaching them about yourself.
— Daryl Davis
Some black people who have not heard me interviewed or read my book jump to conclusions and prejudge me... I've been called Uncle Tom. I've been called an Oreo.
— Daryl Davis
I'd had a racist experience as a child at age 10, where people had thrown rocks at me and bottles. I didn't understand. And all it was, was because of the color of my skin, nothing I had done, nothing I had said.
— Daryl Davis
There are many controversial topics out there - abortion, nuclear weapons, the 2nd Amendment, guns, whatever, the war in Iraq. You're going to be on one side, somebody's going to be on the other side. Invite those people to the table. Sit down and talk.
— Daryl Davis
I am not so naive as to think everyone will change. There are certainly those who will go to their graves as hateful, violent racists.
— Daryl Davis
There have been some incidents in which I was threatened and a couple of instances where I had to physically fight. Fortunately, I won in both instances.
— Daryl Davis
There has always been a great deal of racism in the U.S. before and after Obama.
— Daryl Davis
I don't consider myself to be a racist, but to me there's not much difference between a black racist or a white racist.
— Daryl Davis
We've simply been putting Band-Aids on the wounds of racism. We haven't drilled down to the bone to get to its source.
— Daryl Davis
We would not have rock and roll without Chuck Berry, and when I first heard Chuck Berry, I fell in love with that music, and when I saw him, I changed my whole career trajectory that I was on as a kid.
— Daryl Davis
My parents were U.S. Foreign Service, so I spent a lot of time you know, overseas in various countries around the world, you know, I was an American Embassy brat and today, as a professional musician, I travel all over this country and around the world.
— Daryl Davis
Every racist that I know - and I know a lot of racists - every racist that I know voted for Donald Trump.
— Daryl Davis
Music is my profession but learning more about racism on all sides of the tracks was my obsession.
— Daryl Davis
Our society can only become one of two things, it can be become what we let it become or it can become what we make it, and I choose the latter.
— Daryl Davis
When you make friends with me, you have a friend for life.
— Daryl Davis
Music is indeed the universal language and unites people.
— Daryl Davis
In most of my encounters with Klan members, we would discuss reasons for why they were members in the first place.
— Daryl Davis
There's a difference between being ignorant and being stupid... For me, an ignorant person is someone who makes the wrong decision or a bad choice because he or she does not have the proper facts. If you give that person the facts and the proper information you have alleviated that ignorance, and they make the right decision.
— Daryl Davis
A stupid person is someone who has the facts, who has the proper information, and still makes the wrong decision.
— Daryl Davis
At the end, ignorance is the source of biases. If we cure that, there's nothing to fear and hate.
— Daryl Davis
I did not vote for Donald Trump and I do not support him but I believe that Trump is the best thing to happen to this country in a long time. He's bringing out the country's ugliness. There's no turning a blind eye anymore.
— Daryl Davis
A Klan member is not stamped from a standard cookie cutter. They come from all walks of life and various education levels and environmental situations which have led to their decision to join the Klan. The one common denominator that all share is lack of exposure to others who may not look like them or believe as they do.
— Daryl Davis
We spend too much time talking about each other, at each other, past each other, and not enough time talking with each other.
— Daryl Davis
You're not going to beat the meanness out of a mean dog. You start beating a mean dog, it's gonna become more mean. You start beating racists, they're gonna become more racist.
— Daryl Davis
The most powerful tools you can have are information and knowledge.
— Daryl Davis
What we do too much of is, we talk about each other, we talk at each other, or we talk past each other. I have found that talking with each other is much more effective.
— Daryl Davis
In my band, I'm the band leader. As a band leader, our job is to bring harmony to the voices we have on stage.
— Daryl Davis
It was incomprehensible to me that someone who had never seen me before, someone who knew absolutely nothing about me, would want to inflict pain upon me for no other reason than the color of my skin.
— Daryl Davis
I had to keep myself in check. Like, 'Whoa, whoa, whoa.' I'd never sat in a room, five feet away from a Klansman putting on his damn robe. That's what freaked me out a little bit. But I wanted to see a Klansman.
— Daryl Davis
You can legislate behavior but you cannot legislate belief. Patience is what it takes. But patience doesn't mean sitting around on your butt waiting for something to happen.
— Daryl Davis
When was 'again?' Was it back when I was drinking from a separate water fountain? Was it when I couldn't eat in that restaurant over there?... 'Make America Great Again' - before I had equality?
— Daryl Davis
I knew as much about the Klan, if not more than many of the Klan people that I interviewed. When they see that you know about their organization, their belief system, they respect you.
— Daryl Davis
A lot of the media says, 'oh, black musician converts X-number of Klansmen.' I never converted one. But over 200 have left that, the white supremacy movements, because I have been the impetus for that.
— Daryl Davis
When you seek to destroy somebody, all you do is empower them, because they feel like, 'you see? They don't want us to have our rights to feel the way we want to feel.' And they get more and more emboldened and more and more empowered.
— Daryl Davis
I was no stranger to racism. Having grown up a black person in the '60s and '70s, I knew that prejudice was common.
— Daryl Davis
Music absolutely played a massive role in bridging many gaps in the racial divides I would encounter.
— Daryl Davis
I have just about every book written on the Klan and I've read them all.
— Daryl Davis
Knowledge, information, wit, and the way you disseminate these attributes can often prove to be a more disarming weapon against an enemy or some with whom your ideology is in conflict, than violence or lethal weapons.
— Daryl Davis
I try to bring out the humanity in people.
— Daryl Davis
Am I going to vote for Trump? Absolutely not. I do not believe in his platform.
— Daryl Davis
Chuck Berry had a very profound impact on me. The man was a genius.
— Daryl Davis
Back in the day, prior to rock and roll, music halls, concert venues were segregated if they allowed black people in at all. You know, there were ropes that went around the sitting sections with signs hanging that would say, 'Sitting for white patrons only,' or 'Colored sitting only.'
— Daryl Davis
There are plenty of people, including good friends of mine, who are not racist, and who voted for Trump. A lot of people wanted a change from what they were accustom to for the last decades... they wanted a change of the status quo, a changing of the guard. And they were willing to overlook his misogyny, his racist or bigoted comments.
— Daryl Davis
If you have an adversary, an opponent with an opposing point of view, give that person a platform, regardless of how extreme it may be.
— Daryl Davis
It's very important that we learn how to communicate... and learn to respect each other.
— Daryl Davis
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