| Umoja (Unity)
To strive for and maintain unity in the family, community, nation and race. |
| Kujichagulia (Self-Determination)
To define ourselves, name ourselves, create for ourselves and speak for ourselves. |
| Ujima (Collective Work and Responsibility)
To build and maintain our community together and make our brother's and sister's problems our problems and to solve them together. |
| Ujamaa (Cooperative Economics)
To build and maintain our own stores, shops and other businesses and to profit from them together. |
| Nia (Purpose)
To make our collective vocation the building and developing of our
community in order to restore our people to their traditional
greatness. |
| Kuumba (Creativity)
To do always as much as we can, in the way we can, in order to leave our community more beautiful and beneficial than we inherited it. |
| Imani (Faith)
To believe with all our heart in our people, our parents, our
teachers, our leaders and the righteousness and victory of our
struggle. |
| Maulana Karenga
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