The New Afrikan Creed

  1. i believe in the spirituality, humanity and genius of Black People, and in Our new pursuit of these values.

  2. i believe in the family and the community, and in the community as a family, and i will work to make this concept live.

  3. i believe in the community as more important than the individual.

  4. i believe in constant struggle for freedom, to end oppression and build a better world. i believe in collective struggle; in fashioning victory in concert with my brothers and sisters.

  5. i believe that the fundamental reason Our oppression continues is that We, as a people, lack the power to control Our lives.

  6. i believe that the fundamental way to gain that power, and end oppression, is to build a sovereign Black Nation.

  7. i believe that all the land in America, upon which We have lived for a long time, which We have worked and built upon, and which We have fought to stay on, is land that belongs to us as a people.

  8. i believe in the Malcolm X Doctrine: that We must organize upon this land, and hold a plebiscite, to tell the world by a vote that We are free and Our land independent, and that after the vote, We must stand ready to defend Ourselves, establishing the nation beyond contradiction.

  9. Therefore, i pledge to struggle without cease until We have won sovereignty. i pledge to struggle without fail until We have built a better condition than the world has yet known.

  10. i will give my life, if that is necessary. i will give my time, my mind, my strength and my wealth because this is necessary.

  11. i will follow my chosen leaders and help them.

  12. i will love my brothers and sisters as myself.

  13. i will steal nothing from a brother or sister, cheat no brother or sister, misuse no brother or sister, inform on no brother or sister, and spread no gossip.

  14. i will keep myself clean in body, dress and speech, knowing that i am a light set on a hill, a true representative of what we are building.

  15. i will be patient and uplifting with my brothers & sisters*, and i will seek by word and by deed to heal the black family; to bring into the movement and into the community, mothers and fathers, brothers and sisters left by the wayside.

Now, freely and of my own will, i pledge this creed, for the sake of freedom for my people and a better world, on pain of disgrace and banishment if i prove false. For i am - by the inspiration of Our ancestors and the Grace of Our Creator

— a New Afrikan.