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Leadership Quote by Mia Mottley

"In our unity lies our strength. This must be our truth and our rallying cry"

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Unity is doing double duty here: it is both a moral claim and a power strategy. Mia Mottley isn’t offering togetherness as a feel-good virtue; she’s positioning it as infrastructure. “In our unity lies our strength” compresses a whole theory of small-state survival into a single line: when resources are limited and external pressures are large, fragmentation is a luxury you can’t afford.

The phrasing matters. “Our” is the lever - it recruits the listener into a shared stake, dissolving the distance between leader and led. “Lies” is quiet but deliberate, implying strength is already present, waiting to be accessed, not invented. That subtlety sidesteps despair and turns the audience from petitioners into owners.

Then the hard turn: “This must be our truth and our rallying cry”. “Must” is coercive in the best political sense - an attempt to convert a preference into necessity. By calling unity a “truth”, Mottley frames dissent not just as disagreement but as a flirtation with unreality, a refusal to see what the moment demands. And “rallying cry” signals she’s speaking to more than parliamentary arithmetic; she’s preparing a public mood, a mobilization.

Contextually, Mottley’s leadership has been defined by crises that punish division: climate vulnerability for Caribbean nations, post-pandemic economic strain, and a global order where big powers set terms. The subtext is a warning: internal fracture becomes external leverage. Unity, here, isn’t kumbaya. It’s sovereignty.

Quote Details

TopicTeam Building
SourceNew Year Statement by new Chair of CARICOM, CARICOM, January 1, 2025
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Mottley, Mia. (2026, February 20). In our unity lies our strength. This must be our truth and our rallying cry. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/in-our-unity-lies-our-strength-this-must-be-our-185648/

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Mottley, Mia. "In our unity lies our strength. This must be our truth and our rallying cry." FixQuotes. February 20, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/in-our-unity-lies-our-strength-this-must-be-our-185648/.

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"In our unity lies our strength. This must be our truth and our rallying cry." FixQuotes, 20 Feb. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/in-our-unity-lies-our-strength-this-must-be-our-185648/. Accessed 21 Feb. 2026.

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Mia Mottley

Mia Mottley (born October 1, 1965) is a President from Barbados.

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