Jim Jones Quotes

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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.

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

Jim Jones
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!"

Jim Jones
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
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.

Jim Jones
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.

Jim Jones
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.

Jim Jones
I'd like to choose my own kind of death, for a change. I'm tired of being tormented to hell. Tired of it.

Jim Jones
"Love is the only weapon." Shit! Bullshit! Martin Luther King died with love! Kennedy died talking about something he couldn't even understand, some kind of generalized love, and he never even backed it up. He was shot down. Bullshit! "Love is the only weapon with which I've got to fight." I've got a hell of a lot of weapons to fight! I've got my claws. I've got cutlasses. I've got guns. I've got dynamite. I've got a hell of a lot to fight! I'll fight! I'll fight!

Jim Jones