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Daily Inspiration Quote by Louis Farrakhan

"The Jews don't like Farrakhan, so they call me Hitler. Well, that's a good name. Hitler was a very great man"

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Provocation is the point here: Farrakhan takes the ultimate moral red line in modern political speech and treats it like a branding opportunity. The structure is a baited trap. He opens with grievance ("The Jews don't like Farrakhan") and slides immediately into a persecution narrative ("so they call me Hitler"), reframing condemnation as coordinated smear. Then comes the turn that makes the line function less as defense than as escalation: "that's a good name". The shock isn’t accidental; it’s a recruitment tactic. If the mainstream calls you monstrous, he suggests, you might as well wear the monster mask and turn it into proof of power.

The subtext is older than the sentence: antisemitism as a language of inverted victimhood, where Jewish criticism becomes evidence of Jewish control, and the accused becomes the truth-teller. Calling Hitler "a very great man" is not a historical argument; it’s a signal. It tells listeners that the speaker is willing to violate polite consensus, that he won’t accept the postwar moral hierarchy that places Jewish suffering beyond political bargaining.

Context matters because Farrakhan’s public identity has long fused Black nationalist grievance with conspiratorial accounts of Jewish influence. This line is calibrated for an audience primed to see institutions, media, and finance as rigged against them. It converts real experiences of racism and exclusion into an explanation with a villain, then uses taboo praise of Hitler to polarize the room: you’re either shocked and gone, or you stay and prove you’re loyal.

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APA Style (7th ed.)
Farrakhan, Louis. (2026, January 16). The Jews don't like Farrakhan, so they call me Hitler. Well, that's a good name. Hitler was a very great man. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/the-jews-dont-like-farrakhan-so-they-call-me-84669/

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Farrakhan, Louis. "The Jews don't like Farrakhan, so they call me Hitler. Well, that's a good name. Hitler was a very great man." FixQuotes. January 16, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/the-jews-dont-like-farrakhan-so-they-call-me-84669/.

MLA Style (9th ed.)
"The Jews don't like Farrakhan, so they call me Hitler. Well, that's a good name. Hitler was a very great man." FixQuotes, 16 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/the-jews-dont-like-farrakhan-so-they-call-me-84669/. Accessed 21 Feb. 2026.

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Louis Farrakhan (born May 11, 1933) is a Activist from USA.

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