The Fourteen Words is a saying frequently used by White nationalists, Neo-nazis and White Pride supporters. The slogan was coined by David Lane, an imprisoned member of The Order. It states:
We must secure the existence of our people and a future for White children.
The slogan was inspired by a statement in Volume 1, Chapter 8 of Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf: "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."
Sometimes the slogan is spraypainted or used to deface property in order to mark "turf" in prisons and other urban areas (often stylized as 14W), so it can be considered a gang symbol as well.[citation needed] It is sometimes combined with '88' as in '14/88', '1488' or '8814'. The '88' stands for the eighth letter of the alphabet twice, or 'HH', the initials of Heil Hitler.[1] '88' can also stand for the book '88 Precepts' by David Lane.[2]