Umoja (oo-MOH-jah): Unity
Success starts with Unity. Unity of family, community, nation and race.
Kujichagulia (koo-jee-chah-goo-LEE-ah): Self-Determination
To be responsible for ourselves. To create your own destiny.
Ujima (oo-JEE-mah): Collective Work and Responsibility
To build and maintain your community together. To work together to help one another within your community.
Ujamaa (oo-jah-MAH): Collective economics
To build, maintain, and support our own stores, establishments, and businesses.
Nia (NEE-ah): Purpose
To restore African American people to their traditional greatness. To be responsible to Those Who Came Before (our ancestors) and to Those Who Will Follow (our descendants).
Kuumba (koo-OOM-bah): Creativity
Using creativity and imagination to make your communities better than what you inherited.
Imani (ee-MAH-nee): Faith
Believing in our people, our families, our educators, our leaders, and the righteousness of the African American struggle.
The Seven Principles of the Symbionese Liberation Army:
Umoja-La Unidad-Unity
To strive for and maintain unity in our household, our nation and in the Symbionese federation.
Kujichagulia-La Libre Determinacion-Self Determination
To define ourselves, name ourselves, speak for ourselves and govern ourselves.
Ujima-Trabajo Colectivo y Responsibilidad-Collective Work and Responsibility
To build and maintain our nation and federation together by making our brothers' and sisters' and the Federation's problems our problems and solving them together.
Ujamaa-Produccion Cooperativa-Cooperative Production
To build and maintain our own economy from our skills, and labor and resources and to insure ourselves and other nations that we all profit equally from our labor.
Nia-Proposito-Purpose
To make as our collective vocation the development and liberation of our nation, and all oppressed people, in order to restore our people and all oppressed people to their traditional greatness and humanity.
Kuumba-Creativo-Creativity
To do all we can , as best as we can, in order to free our nation and defend the federation and constantly make it and the earth that we all share more beautiful and beneficial.
Imani-Fe-Faith
To believe in our unity, our leaders, our teachers, our people, and in the righteousness and victory of our struggle and the struggle of all oppressed and exploited people.