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Daryl Davis Motivation Quotes at starsquotes

The US R&B and blues singer, activist, poet, actor and leader is Daryl Davis, born on March 26 1958.Davis has worked with such musicians as Chuck Berry, Jerry Lee Lewis, BB. King or Bruce Hornsby, and is well know for his lively style of boogie-woogie piano.

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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.

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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.

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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 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

If you have an adversary, you don’t have to respect what they’re saying, but respect their right to say it.

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

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

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

The three Klan leaders here in Maryland, Roger Kelly, Robert White, and Chester Doles – I became friends with each one of them – when the three Klan leaders left the Klan and became friends of mine, that ended the Ku Klux Klan in the state of Maryland.

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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

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.

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