Daryl Davis quotes

“Ignorance breeds fear. If you don't keep that fear in check, that fear will breed hatred. If you don't keep hatred in check it will breed destruction.”
-- Daryl Davis

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“Find someone who disagrees and invite them to your table.”
-- Daryl Davis

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“When two enemies are talking, they're not fighting.”
-- Daryl Davis

Source : "KKK Member Walks up to Black Musician in Bar-but It’s Not a Joke, and What Happens Next Will Astound You". Interview with Rebecca Savastio, guardianlv.com. November 20, 2013.

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“The military doesn't teach rifle marksmanship. It teaches equipment familiarity. Despite what the officer corps thinks, learning to shoot a rifle is not like learning to drive a car. Instead, it is like learning to play the violin.... The equipment familiarity learning curve comes up quick, but then the rifle marksmanship continuation of the curve rises very slowly....by shooting one careful shot at a time, carefully inspecting the result (and the cause).”
-- Daryl Davis

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“The ignorance of the oppressed is strength for the oppressor.”

“Mostly I make lists for projects. This can be daunting. Breaking something big into its constituent parts will help you organize your thoughts, but it can also force you to confront the depth of your ignorance and the hugeness of the task. That's OK. The project may be the lion, but the list is your whip.”

“Music is something that takes you to a world which is very different from the world of hatred,jealousy, and all those negative emotions”

“The Second Temple was destroyed because of causeless hatred. Perhaps the Third will be rebuilt because of causeless love.”

“I don't see much future for the Americans ... it's a decayed country. And they have their racial problem, and the problem of social inequalities ... my feelings against Americanism are feelings of hatred and deep repugnance ... everything about the behaviour of American society reveals that it's half Judaised, and the other half negrified. How can one expect a State like that to hold together?”

Source : "Hitler's Table Talk". Die Bormann Vermerke: Transcripts of Hitler's conversations (5 July 1941 - 30 November 1944), made under the supervision of Martin Bormann, 1953.

“My pacifism is not based on any intellectual theory but on a deep antipathy to every form of cruelty and hatred.”

“We hated pretentiousness; it was a form of self-hatred.”

“The destruction of Wonderland, is the destruction of me?!”

Source : "Fictional character: Alice Liddell". "Alice: Madness Returns", 2011.

“He, who can create, abhors destruction.”

“If you can't create, you destroy.”