
We pledge…
To honor King Court’s vision,
A people united around the notion of freedom,
Free of Queen, King, and consort,
No longer slaves to anything but our own conviction.
To maintain the fighting spirit of the once-slave sisters,
Who under the wage whip of overseers children
Waged a revolution against the poverty of people,
The desmadification of a culture,
A backward motion toward what was abolished.
We pledge to be one people indivisible.
We pledge…
That Dame Nellie’s hard work was not in vain,
That our foundation should be our knowledge,
To support and care for each other as we do for ourselves,
For a united nation is a stable nation.
On that foundation, we will build every possibility,
We will rise above all things that divide,
That neither race, color, creed, gender, or cash value,
Will drive us from our common purpose.
A fortress shall we be against even the most pompous foe,
To realize a future of our own making.
We pledge…
Individually, as citizens, in health and energy,
That we are not islands,
That only arm in the arm can we stand.
That our strength is in our multitude,
A people missed by favoritism, nepotism,
And all other isms meant to sap our fortitude.
A society not made of just people,
But a society of just people, more robust than the sum of its parts.
In all this, we pledge…to serve our mother, forge and fortress…Antigua and Barbuda