Exploring the Seven Principles of Kwanzaa

Day One: Unity The goal is to strive for and maintain unity in the family, community, nation, and race. Day Two: Self-Determination The goal is to define ourselves, name ourselves, create for ourselves, and speak for ourselves. Day Three: Collective Work and Responsibility The goal is to build and maintain our community together, make our brothers' and sisters' problems our problems, and solve them together. Day Four: Cooperative Economics The goal is to build and maintain our own stores, shops, and other businesses and profit from them together. Day Five: Purpose The goal is to make our collective vocation the building and developing of our community to restore our people to their traditional greatness. Day Six: Creativity The goal is always to do as much as we can, in the way we can, to leave our community more beautiful and beneficial than we inherited it. Day Seven: Faith The goal is to believe with all our hearts in our people, our parents, our teachers, our leaders, and the righteousness and victory of our struggle.