Quotes from Daryl Davis

My father was the first black Secret Service agent. He wanted to get into the FBI but J. Edgar Hoover, who was the head of the FBI, was a racist and he said we don't want any black people.

I respect someone's right to air their views whether they are wrong or right.

I am not so naive as to think everyone will change. There are certainly those who will go to their graves as hateful, violent racists.

I met a white man once, who claimed that every black man has a gene which makes him violent. To which, I said I had never been violent and that he was wrong.

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.

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.