Been Quote by Daryl Davis Download Open image “I have been attacked and mistreated for my skin colour since I was a child.” — Daryl Davis ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.5 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Been Child Children Colour Mistreated Skin
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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
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
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… — Daryl Davis Copy Share Image
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