Quote by Val Holley

In most of my encounters with Klan members, we would discuss reasons for why they were members in the first place.

— Daryl Davis

“At the time i didn't realize why there was so much Klan activity, but later I learned that it was because African-American soldiers werre…

— Rosa Parks

“Twas the night before Christmas, at a town in the South, A band of ex-Confederates gathered, down in the mouth; That the black man…

— Michael Farquhar

Some people have compared the Klan images to ecclesiastical figures.

— Andres Serrano

“By 1872, under Grant’s leadership, the Ku Klux Klan had been smashed in the South. (Its later twentieth-century incarnation had no connection to the…

— Ron Chernow

“A southerner by choice, Akerman found it sobering to verify the depth of Klan penetration in the region, which “revealed a perversion of moral…

— Ron Chernow

I was born in the late '70s and grew up in the deep South, and I was very much still of an era where…

— Nate Powell

The Klan had used fear, intimidation and murder to brutally oppress over African-Americans who sought justice and equality and it sought to respond to…

— Anonymous

That was part of David Duke's agenda, is to turn the Klan from a racist organization in the eyes of the public into something…

— Ron Stallworth

“The focus on the Klan also helped to designate racism as an individual aberration rather than something systemic, institutional, and pervasive.12”

— Carol Anderson

I knew as much about the Klan, if not more than many of the Klan people that I interviewed. When they see that you…

— Daryl Davis

“It was 1970, and America was scarred by racial violence. Civil rights leaders had been gunned down in the streets, and communities across the…

— Julia Scheeres