Fourteen Words

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The '''Fourteen Words''' is a [[White nationalist|White nationalist]] phrase which refers to one of the following 14-word slogans:<ref>"[https://www.adl.org/education/references/hate-symbols/14-words Hate on Display: 14 (words)]." Anti-Defamation League.</ref>
*''We must secure the existence of our people and a future for White Children.''
*''Because the beauty of the White [[Aryan]] woman must not perish from the earth.''

The slogans were coined by noted racist [[David Lane]] in reference to his '''88''' Precepts and "[[pyramid]][[prophecy]]". Thus, white supremacists will sometimes combine "the 14 words" in reference to the excerpt in the phrase "'''14/88'''" or "1488". It is sometimes claimed the first set of 14 words was inspired by an 88-word passage in Volume 1, Chapter 8 of ''Mein Kampf''{{efn|{{cquote|What we must fight for is to safeguard the existence and reproduction of our race and our people, the sustenance of our children and the purity of our blood, the freedom and independence of the fatherland, so that our people may mature for the fulfillment of the mission allotted it by the creator of the universe. Every thought and every idea, every doctrine and all knowledge, must serve this purpose. And everything must be examined from this point of view and used or rejected according to its utility.|||Adolf Hitler, ''Mein Kampf''}}}} but neither Lane or his publisher Fourteen Word Press ever made this association and it is probably a coincidence. 

"88" has dual meaning as it also is used to reference H as the 8<sup>th</sup> letter of the alphabet, and thus the 88 can also be used to stand for HH, or "Heil [[Hitler]]".<ref>"[http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,770820,00.html The Truth about 88: New Book Reveals Secret Meaning of Neo-Nazi Codes]." ''Der Spiegel''. 2011 June 7.</ref>

==Political use==
Virtually every [[Neo-Nazism|Neo-Nazi]], [[White supremacy|white supremacist]], and [[White nationalism|white nationalist]] has used this slogan or a variation of it at some point as well as their ideologies (of course white-centric) being based on this motto.

[[Hungarian]] [[far-right]] (though purportedly ''not'' Neo-Nazi) party Jobbik often uses the numbers 14 and 88, such as publishing their program for the 2010 elections in 88 pages<ref>"[https://web.archive.org/web/20100329101448/http://jobbik.hu/sites/jobbik.hu/down/Jobbik-program2010OGY.pdf Radical Change: Jobbik Parliamentary Program]." Jobbik.</ref> and having their party headquarters' phone number be (+36 1) 365 14 88.<ref>"[https://web.archive.org/web/20121112015111/https://orszaginfo.magyarorszag.hu/informaciok/allamrendszer/partok.html Information &mdash; Parliamentary parties]."</ref>

The [[White separatism|white separatist]], [[White nationalism|white nationalist]] organization Northwest Front and Neo-Nazi Harold Covington use the 14 words in the preamble of the Northwest American Republic Constitution which reads as: 

{{quotebox|In the name of the [[God|Divine Creator]] of all things we, the [[Aryan]] peoples of the [[earth]], do hereby set forth this Constitution of the Northwest American Republic, in order that we may secure the existence of our people and a future for White children.<ref>https://archive.ph/http://www.northwestfront.net/constitution.html</ref>}}

In January 2017, [[Ann Coulter]] posted a tweet saying only "14!".<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20201108121133/https://twitter.com/AnnCoulter/status/817022914004447232 14!] by Ann Coulter (7:00 AM - 5 Jan 2017) ''Twitter'' (archived from November 8, 2020).</ref> This was widely interpreted by [[alt-right]] Twitter users, as well as liberal observers, as a [[dog whistle]] referencing the Fourteen Words and openly identifying herself for the first time as a white nationalist. Coulter later tweeted that she was counting down the final days of [[Obama]]'s Presidency, but that doesn't seem to be true because 15 days were left in Obama's Presidency, not 14.<ref>''Huffington Post'', [http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/ann-coulter-tweet_us_586e7734e4b02b5f858765ff "This Ann Coulter Tweet Sure Looks Like A Shoutout To White Supremacists"], January 5, 2017.</ref>

In June 2020, [[Donald Trump]]'s campaign ran 88 [[ad]]s on Facebook fearmongering about [[Antifascist Action|Antifa]], with the first sentence being 14 words long, and along with a Nazi Symbol for political prisoners (an inverted red triangle).<ref> [https://www.mediamatters.org/facebook/facebook-let-trump-campaign-run-ads-inverted-red-triangle-infamous-nazi-symbol Facebook finally removed Trump campaign ads with inverted red triangle — an infamous Nazi symbol] by Kayla Gogarty & John Whitehouse (Published 06/18/20 11:47 AM EDT; Updated 06/18/20 1:15 PM EDT) ''Media Matters for America''</ref> While the use of a sentence that was 14 words long in an anti-antifa ad that ran 88 times could be [[coincidence]] by themselves, their occurrence with a symbol used in Nazi [[concentration camps]] that is not associated with Antifa indicates that this was an intentional dog whistle paid for by the [[GOP]] and associated directly with Trump and [[Mike Pence]] accounts.<ref name=rodrigo>[https://thehill.com/policy/technology/503421-facebook-takes-down-trump-ads-featuring-symbol-used-by-nazis-to-mark Facebook takes down Trump ads featuring symbol used by Nazis to mark political prisoners] by Chris Mills Rodrigo (06/18/20 02:11 PM EDT) ''The Hill''.</ref> Notably, the Trump campaign had previously used an [[antisemitic]] dog whistle ad in its 2016 presidential campaign.<ref name=rodrigo/>

==External links==
*[https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/twitter-explodes-after-homeland-security-headline-appears-to-mimic-14-words-neo-nazi-slogan/ Twitter Explodes After Homeland Security Headline Appears to Mimic '14-Words' Neo-Nazi Slogan]

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