I never set out to convert anyone in the Klan. I just set out to get an answer to my question: 'How… — Daryl Davis Copy Share Image
I have just about every book written on the Klan and I've read them all. — Daryl Davis Copy Share Image
I have a former Baltimore City police officer's uniform and his robe and hood. He was the grand dragon, which means state… — Daryl Davis Copy Share Image
In most of my encounters with Klan members, we would discuss reasons for why they were members in the first place. — Daryl Davis Copy Share Image
A Klan member is not stamped from a standard cookie cutter. They come from all walks of life and various education levels… — Daryl Davis Copy Share Image
I decided to go around the country and sit down with Klan leaders and Klan members to find out: How can you… — Daryl Davis Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
They've changed the name from white supremacy to white separatists, to white nationalists, to alt-right. It's the same thing. A rose by any other… — Daryl Davis Copy Share Image
I have been attacked and mistreated for my skin colour since I was a child. — Daryl Davis Copy Share Image
If you have an adversary, an opponent with an opposing point of view, give that person a platform, regardless of how extreme it may… — Daryl Davis Copy Share Image
At the end, ignorance is the source of biases. If we cure that, there's nothing to fear and hate. — Daryl Davis Copy Share Image
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… — Daryl Davis Copy Share Image
Our society can only become one of two things, it can be become what we let it become or it can become what we… — Daryl Davis Copy Share Image
If you were to talk to somebody from Georgia you would understand what he's saying, he wouldn't sound like your next-door neighbor in Montana,… — Daryl Davis Copy Share Image
Every racist that I know - and I know a lot of racists - every racist that I know voted for Donald Trump. — Daryl Davis Copy Share Image
It was incomprehensible to me that someone who had never seen me before, someone who knew absolutely nothing about me, would want to inflict… — Daryl Davis Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
