- 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