- Nov 07, 2020
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- Respect
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you have an adversary, you don't have to respect what they're saying, but respect their right to say it.
- Enough Time
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- Nov 07, 2020
We spend too much time talking about each other, at each other, past each other, and not enough time talking with each other.
- Fighting
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Learning
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- Nov 07, 2020
The most important thing I learned is that when you are actively learning about someone else you are passively teaching them about yourself.
- Friends
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Book
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Media
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- Nov 07, 2020
A lot of the media says, 'oh, black musician converts X-number of Klansmen.' I never converted one. But over 200 have left that, the white supremacy movements, because I have been the impetus for that.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'd had a racist experience as a child at age 10, where people had thrown rocks at me and bottles. I didn't understand. And all it was, was because of the color of my skin, nothing I had done, nothing I had said.
- Bona Fide
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have a former Baltimore City police officer's uniform and his robe and hood. He was the grand dragon, which means state leader. His day job, what paid his bills, he was a Baltimore City police officer, not an undercover officer in the Klan gathering intelligence, but a bona fide Klansmen on the Baltimore City police force.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you seek to destroy somebody, all you do is empower them, because they feel like, 'you see? They don't want us to have our rights to feel the way we want to feel.' And they get more and more emboldened and more and more empowered.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are many controversial topics out there - abortion, nuclear weapons, the 2nd Amendment, guns, whatever, the war in Iraq. You're going to be on one side, somebody's going to be on the other side. Invite those people to the table. Sit down and talk.
- Ignorance
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Facts
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- Nov 07, 2020
A stupid person is someone who has the facts, who has the proper information, and still makes the wrong decision.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was no stranger to racism. Having grown up a black person in the '60s and '70s, I knew that prejudice was common.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Over the past 30 years, I have come to know hundreds of white supremacists, from KKK members, neo-Nazis and white nationalists to those who call themselves alt-right. Some were good people with wrong beliefs, and others were bad people hellbent on violence and the destruction of those who were non-Aryan.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never set out to convert anyone in the Klan. I just set out to get an answer to my question: 'How can you hate me when you don't even know me.'
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
Music absolutely played a massive role in bridging many gaps in the racial divides I would encounter.
- Fight
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Enemy
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Always
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- Nov 07, 2020
There has always been a great deal of racism in the U.S. before and after Obama.
- Out
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- Nov 07, 2020
I try to bring out the humanity in people.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't consider myself to be a racist, but to me there's not much difference between a black racist or a white racist.
- Company
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't believe that Donald Trump is a racist, per se. But some of the things that he does, some of the rhetoric that he uses, attracts racists and that sets the tone. And of course, you are judged by the company you keep.
- Going
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- Nov 07, 2020
Am I going to vote for Trump? Absolutely not. I do not believe in his platform.
- Best
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- Nov 07, 2020
I did not vote for Donald Trump and I do not support him but I believe that Trump is the best thing to happen to this country in a long time. He's bringing out the country's ugliness. There's no turning a blind eye anymore.
- Best
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- Nov 07, 2020
Believe it or not, the best way to put somebody at ease or bring them to a level of trust is to know as much if not more about them than they know about themselves or the organization to which they belong.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020