Jim Jones

“What you need to believe in is what you can see... If you see me as your friend, I'll be your friend. As you see me as your father, I'll be your father.”

“The only thing I ever wanted was to give you a happy life.”

“We didn't commit suicide, we committed an act of revolutionary suicide protesting the conditions of an inhumane world.”

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

“This is a revolutionary suicide. It is not a self-destructive suicide. So they’ll pay for this. They brought this upon us.”

“Die with respect. Die with a degree of dignity. Don't lay down with tears and agony.”

“To me, death is not a fearful thing. It's living that's cursed.”

“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.”

“I represent the strangest combination of a Marxist and a mystic.”

“We are sitting on a powder keg.”

“I have to believe that the United States is the new Roman Empire. And I don't want to be a part of the new Roman Empire.”