Richard Bertrand Spencer Quotes

Richard Bertrand Spencer is an American white supremacist.

He is president of the National Policy Institute, a white supremacist think tank, as well as Washington Summit Publishers. Spencer rejects the label of white supremacist and considers himself a white nationalist or white identitarian. Spencer created the term "alt-right", which he considers a movement about "white identity". Spencer advocates white-European unity and a "peaceful ethnic cleansing" of nonwhites from America. He has criticized Euroskepticism, and advocates the creation of a white ethnostate that would be open to all "racial Europeans", which Spencer considers a reconstitution of the Roman Empire.Spencer has been described as a neo-Nazi and has publicly engaged in Nazi rhetoric on many occasions. In early 2016, Spencer was filmed giving the Nazi salute to Milo Yiannopoulos in a karaoke bar. In the weeks following the 2016 U.S. presidential election, at a National Policy Institute conference, Spencer quoted from Nazi propaganda and denounced Jews. In response to his cry "Hail Trump, hail our people, hail victory!", a number of his supporters gave the Nazi salute and chanted in a similar fashion to the Sieg Heil chant used at the Nazis' Nuremberg rallies.Spencer promotes his views through writing, media appearances, and college speaking tours. He was a featured speaker at the August 2017 Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, during which an alt-right supporter drove his car into a group of counter-protesters, killing one and injuring at least 19 others. Spencer denies any role or culpability in the attack, but has been sued for allegedly acting as a "gang boss" at Charlottesville and inciting the killing. After three other supporters of Spencer were charged with attempted homicide following Spencer's October 2017 speech at the University of Florida, Ohio State and several other universities cancelled Spencer's appearances, describing his presence as a menace to public safety. In 2018, Spencer suspended his college tour indefinitely.The majority of European nations, including the entire Schengen Area, and nations with nationalist governments, have banned Spencer and condemned his message. While promoting his message in a controversial speaking tour in Hungary, Spencer was mocked by the Hungarian newspaper Népszabadság for his claim to be a "racial European", which the newspaper said had no basis in European history, and for his call for "European unity" through a revival of the Roman Empire. In the aftermath of the controversy, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán banned and condemned Spencer. The government of Poland has also banned and condemned Spencer, citing Spencer's Nazi rhetoric and the Nazis' genocide of Slavic "Untermenschen" during World War II. In July 2018, Spencer was detained at Reykjavík airport en route to Sweden and ordered by Polish officials to return to the United States; the successful effort of the Poles to ban Spencer from other parts of Europe arises from the Schengen agreement.

✵ 11. May 1978
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Famous Richard Bertrand Spencer Quotes

“Hail Trump! Hail our people! Hail victory!”

"Hail victory" is "the English translation of the Nazi exhortation "Sieg Heil!""

Richard Bertrand Spencer Quotes about understanding

“Automation…the White Death…deindustrilization. Trump throws bombast and bluster at the problem. Andrew Yang sees the problem for what it is and offers understanding, sympathy, and solutions. Everyone should take this man and his ideas seriously.”

23 November 2018 https://twitter.com/RichardBSpencer/status/1066238599253843968 regarding Andrew Yang, highlighted 11 March 2019 by Vox https://www.vox.com/2019/3/11/18256198/andrew-yang-gang-presidential-policies-universal-basic-income-joe-rogan and 10 April 2019 by Mother Jones https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2019/04/andrew-yang-4chan-alt-right/
2018

Richard Bertrand Spencer Quotes

“I've been critical of the American founding throughout my career”

Spencer interview with Dinesh D'Souza for the documentary Death of a Nation: Can We Save America a Second Time?
Context: I've been critical of the American founding throughout my career.

“A nation based on freedom is just another place to go shopping.”

11 April 2016 [James, Kirchick, https://www.nationalreview.com/magazine/2016/04/11/donald-trump-white-supremacist-supporters/, Why White-Nationalist Thugs Thrill to Trump, National Review, April 11, 2016]
2016

“Ultimately the state gives those right[s] to you. The state is the source of rights, not the individual.”

Spencer interview with Dinesh D'Souza for the documentary Death of a Nation: Can We Save America a Second Time?

“No individual has a right outside of a collective community. You have rights, not eternally or given by God, or by nature.”

Spencer interview with Dinesh D'Souza for the documentary Death of a Nation: Can We Save America a Second Time?

“Identity is the most important question to answer. Who are we racially? Who are we historically? Who are we in terms of our experience? Who are we in terms of our community?”

10 December 2015 https://www.vice.com/en_ca/article/bnp33d/we-asked-a-white-supremacist-what-he-thought-of-donald-trump-1210
2015

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