“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

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

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founder and the leader of the Peoples Temple 1931–1978

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