Jim Jones Quotes
1931–1978 United States
- United States
- Activists
- Agnostics
- Communists
- Religious leaders
Also known as: Jones, Jim
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12 quotes
If we can't live in peace, then let's die in peace.
Death Tape (1978)
If you're born in capitalist America, racist America, fascist America, then you're born in sin. But if you're born in socialism, you're not born in sin.
Our government does not love its people.
Son of a bitchin’ no good lousy ass anarchistic capitalist bitch. That's what I say about my relatives, but you won't say it.
If my wife said, I'm not going to be a communist, I'd say, well, forget it, by God, I'll forget you too.
Are we black, proud, and socialist, or what are we?
Death Tape (1978)
Take our life from us. We laid it down. We got tired. We didn't commit suicide. We committed an act of revolutionary suicide protesting the conditions of an inhumane world.
Death Tape (1978)
The young preacher once threw his Bible to the floor and yelled at his associates, "Too many people are looking at this instead of looking at me!"
My whole life I have suffered from poverty and have faced many disappointments and pain, like a man is used to. That is why I want to make other people happy and want them to feel at home.
I'd like to choose my own kind of death, for a change. I'm tired of being tormented to hell. Tired of it.
Death Tape (1978)
I have failed [...] I live for my people because they need me. But whenever they leave, they tell lies about the place.
You've seen three people drop dead and you saw them resurrected. Their attitudes were prejudiced and they would drop dead, but I resurrected them. And I've done it sixty-three times in eleven months this year in a public meeting.