Frasi di Jim Jones

Jim Jones, all'anagrafe James Warren Jones , è stato un predicatore statunitense.

Fondatore della congregazione religiosa Tempio del popolo , è conosciuto per avere indotto 909 membri della sua congregazione, anche bambini e neonati, ad uno spaventoso massacro e suicidio di massa a Jonestown e per avere fatto uccidere cinque persone nella vicina pista aerea di atterraggio, tra cui un deputato del Congresso degli Stati Uniti d'America. Wikipedia  

✵ 13. Maggio 1931 – 18. Novembre 1978
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Jim Jones: Frasi in inglese

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

" Death Tape http://jonestown.sdsu.edu/AboutJonestown/Tapes/Tapes/DeathTape/Q042fbi.html" FBI No. Q042 (18 November 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.”

Jones, Jim. "The Letter Killeth." Original material reprint. Department of Religious Studies. San Diego State

“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.”

" http://jonestown.sdsu.edu/AboutJonestown/Tapes/Tapes/TapeTranscripts/Q265.html" FBI No. Q265 (17 October 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.”

Origine: Last words on " Death Tape http://jonestown.sdsu.edu/AboutJonestown/Tapes/Tapes/DeathTape/Q042fbi.html" FBI No. Q042 (18 November 1978)

“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 http://jonestown.sdsu.edu/AboutJonestown/Tapes/Tapes/DeathTape/Q042fbi.html" FBI No. Q042 (18 November 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!"”

Time Magazine, December 4, 1978, Messiah from the Midwest http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,912250-3,00.html

“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.”

(1978). Translated back from Dutch to English, indirectly sourced, Messiahs: The vision and prophecies for the Second coming by John Hogue

“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.”

" http://jonestown.sdsu.edu/AboutJonestown/Tapes/Tapes/TapeTranscripts/Q265.html" FBI No. Q265 (17 October 1978)

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