of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan
an American activist and writer, and former Republican Louisiana State Representative
. He was also a former candidate in the Republican presidential primaries in 1992, and in the Democratic presidential primaries in 1988. Duke has unsuccessfully run for the Louisiana State Senate
, U.S. Senate, U.S. House of Representatives, and Governor of Louisiana.
A former Grand Wizard
of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan
, Duke describes himself as a racial realist
, asserting that "all people have a basic human right to preserve their own heritage." He is a strong advocate of opposition to Zionism
as well as what he asserts to be Zionist control of the Federal Reserve Bank
, the federal government and the media
.
Our clear goal must be the advancement of the white race and separation of the white and black races. This goal must include freeing of the American media and government from subservient Jewish interests.
What we really want to do is to be left alone. We don't want Negroes around. We don't need Negroes around. We're not asking— you know, we don't want to have them, you know, for our culture. We simply want our own country and our own society. That's in no way exploitive at all. We want our own society, our own nation….
I won my constituency. I won 55% of the white vote.
I am opposed to globalism, I am opposed to colonialism, I am opposed to any sort of complusion of one nation over another. (...) I also deeply believe in human rights.
I don't consider myself a racist, I don't hate other peoples, but I certainly want to preserve my own. And I think that's true of all people.
Terrorism does not happen in a vacuum. And we would not be subject to and endangered by so-called terrorism within our own countries if we in fact kept our countries as our own heritage, our own value system. The recent terror plot in Britain, for instance was launched mostly, almost entirely by Muslims of non-Europan descent, who were born in Britain. Born in Britain, because of the immigration policies of our countries.
I don’t want to see this country resemble or look like or become like Mexico. Mexico is great to visit, I’ve been there a few times. I respect all peoples of the world.