“Hope springs eternal, unfortunately it springs from a well poisoned with Jim Jones’ Kool Aid” — Dean Cavanagh Copy Share Image
Aye, we from the streets, we from the streets, we from the streets, but don't u judge me — Future Copy Share Image
“Just as demagogues lead their well-intentioned followers into tragedy, so the jungle inevitably reclaims it's own.” — Jeff Gunn Copy Share Image
I used to really like Method Man and Redman for some reason. And Fabolous. A lot of New York rappers, too. Cam'ron.… — Ski Mask the Slump God Copy Share Image
Representative Leo J. Ryan understood the manipulation phenomena people were describing to him and he lost his life in a Guyanese jungle… — Leo Ryan Copy Share Image
That's why I think it's important to revisit the story of Jonestown. I hope readers come away with a greater compassion for… — Julia Scheeres Copy Share Image
My parents subscribed to both Time and Newsweek and in 1978, I remember the covers of both that December were of the… — Julia Scheeres Copy Share Image
Jim Jones used highly-edited videos and photos of Jonestown, showing what a supposed Eden it was. People were interviewed smiling and working… — Julia Scheeres Copy Share Image
To be honest, I didn't want to get inside Jones's head. Every time I wrote about Jim Jones I practically had to… — Julia Scheeres Copy Share Image
“The Trojan Horse Sterling had referred to reflected his belief that the truth about Jonestown had never been revealed to the American… — James Morcan Copy Share Image
I was working on a satirical novel about a charismatic preacher who takes over a small Indiana town. Then I remembered Jim… — Julia Scheeres Copy Share Image
As kids, my brother David and I longed for acceptance. We were desperate to belong. We would have been thrilled to see… — Julia Scheeres Copy Share Image
“Why such a massacre had occurred, the Omegans could only speculate. Some thought it may have been to stop a large-scale emigration… — James Morcan Copy Share Image
“It’s time to introduce a new fallacy that we have coined the Kool-Aid Fallacy. It goes like this: “You disagree with me… — Thomas Stark Copy Share Image
Jim Jones wanted his people to believe the establishment was trying to kill him because whites were threatened by his message of… — Julia Scheeres Copy Share Image
I could never be in a cult. For starters, they never accessorize properly. David Koresh had no fashion sense, Jim Jones wore… — Joan Rivers Copy Share Image
Of course, Al Qaeda has no more to do with Islam than Jim Jones had to do with Christianity. And it is… — Norah Vincent Copy Share Image
“Alioto sent a “To Whom It May Concern” letter ahead on his personal stationery, urging police and government officials in Houston, Chicago,… — Jeff Guinn Copy Share Image
“Jim Jones was a dedicated Esquire reader, and for him its January 1962 issue (which reached newsstands in December 1961) could not… — Jeff Guinn Copy Share Image
“This may come as a flash, but Obama ain’t Jesus, and neither is George W. Bush, Lyndon Johnson, or even our beloved… — Joseph Befumo Copy Share Image
“the Branch Davidians’ theology is not so different from that of a large fraction of Americans. We call Koresh a “cult leader,”… — Kurt Andersen Copy Share Image
“The obvious differences apart, Karl Marx was no more a reliable prophet than was the Reverend Jim Jones. Karl Marx was a… — William F. Buckley, Jr Copy Share Image
In California, Jim Jones even staged a shooting of himself. The lesson of this was two-fold. One, that he was a god… — Julia Scheeres Copy Share Image
“No one listening [to Jones' sermons], even those who were the most devoted to him, could take it all in. But at… — Jeff Guinn Copy Share Image
I was pregnant with my youngest child at the time, writing about mass death while I'm growing this precious little life inside… — Julia Scheeres Copy Share Image
Jim Jones started out as a civil rights crusader in Indianapolis. As a young preacher in the mid-50s, he used members of… — Julia Scheeres Copy Share Image
I think the folks who joined Jim Jones's church did so because they truly believed in his stated ideals of racial equality… — Julia Scheeres Copy Share Image
![“No one listening [to Jones' sermons], even those who were the most devoted to him, could take it all in. But at some point each follower heard something that reaffirmed his or her personal reason for belonging to Peoples Temple, and for believing in Jim Jones. As Jonestown historian Fielding…” quote by Jeff Guinn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/a6b/jeff-guinn-21483_jim-jones_no-one-listening-to-jones-sermons-even-t_2184419.jpg)
