A biography for Daryl Davishasn’t been written yet.
“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.”
“I wanted to visit India because I have always wanted to explore the country. More than that, I have always found the caste system in India identical to the racism in the United States.”
“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.”
“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?”
“I have been attacked and mistreated for my skin colour since I was a child.”
“He spoke nine languages. You know some people can just pick up an instrument and play. My father was like that with languages.”
“I've been playing music professionally, full time since 1980 when I graduated college at the age of 22.”
“When something bothers me, I try to learn about it.”
“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.”
“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.”
“I have just about every book written on the Klan and I've read them all.”
“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.”
“We spend too much time talking about each other, at each other, past each other, and not enough time talking with each other.”
“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.”
“Invite your enemies to sit down and join you. One small thing you say might give them food for though, and you will learn.”
“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.”
“If you don't keep hatred in check it will breed destruction.”
“I try to bring out the humanity in people.”
“Rock 'n' roll was uniting black kids and white kids, and rock 'n' roll is not being given credit... for being just as important to the civil rights movement as the activists.”
“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.”