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UNITY (UMOJA) To strive for and maintain unity in the family, community, nation and race. SELF-DETERMINATION (KUJICHAGULIA) To define ourselves, name ourselves, create for ourselves, and speak for ourselves instead of being defined, named, created for and spoken for by others. COLLECTIVE WORK AND RESPONSIBILITY (UJIMA) To build and maintain our community together, and make our sisters' and brothers' problems our problems and to solve them together. COOPERATIVE ECONOMICS (UJAMAA) To build and maintain our own shops, stores, and other businesses and to profit from them together. PURPOSE (NIA) To make our collective vocation the building and development of our community in order to restore our people to their traditional greatness. CREATIVITY (KUUMBA) To always do as much as we can, in the way we can, in order to leave our community more beautiful and beneficial than we inherited it. FAITH (IMANI) With all our heart, believe in our people, our parents, our teachers, our leaders, and the righteousness and victory of our struggle. |
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