Day 7 – IMANI – FAITH Jan. 1
To believe with all our heart in our people, our parents, our teachers, our leaders and the righteousness and victory of our struggle.
To believe with all our heart in our people, our parents, our teachers, our leaders and the righteousness and victory of our struggle.
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.
To make our collective vocation the building and developing of our community in order to restore our people to their traditional greatness.
To build and maintain our own stores, shops and other businesses and to profit from them together.
To build and maintain our community together and make our brother’s and sister’s problems our problems and to solve them together.
To define ourselves, name ourselves, speak for ourselves, instead of being defined and spoken for by others.
To strive for and maintain unity in the family, community, nation, region, and people.
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