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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.

— Jim Jones Death Tape (1978)

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If we can't live in peace, then let's die in peace.

Death Tape (1978)

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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.

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