1. I believe in the spirituality, humanity, and genius of Black people and in Our pursuit of these values.

2. I believe in the family and in 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 Nation.

7. I believe that all the land in Amerika 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: 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 our 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 in uplifting the deaf, dumb and blind and will seek by word and deed to heal the Black family, to bring into the movement and into the community mothers, 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 no longer deaf, dumb or blind. I am, by the inspiration of my ancestors and grace of the creator - a New Afrikan

return to information about The Struggles of Khalfani Khaldun from the Gary People's Justice Committee

• Check out a Message from Khalfani Khaldun
• and a Sample Letter on behalf of Khalfani Khaldun
• New!Repression Breeds Resistance, a new message from Khalfani with an updated Sample Letter

Send tax deductible donations to:

• Sonora McQuay
  Khalfani Defense Fund
  P.O. Box 1513
  Gary, IN 46402

Write Khalfani at:

• Location 234D
  Indiana Dept. of Correction
  Pendleton Correctional Facility
  P.O. Box 30
  Pendleton, IN 46064

For more information about Khalfani Khaldun and other political prisoners contact:

• The Khalfani X. Khaldun Mainpage

• prisoner support
  P.O. Box 11015
  Salt Lake City, UT 84147

• Brew City Anti-Authoritarian Collective
  P.O. Box 93312
  Milwaukee, WI 53203