Mother, Mother, Mother, Mother, Mother, please. Mother, please, please, please. Don’t—don’t do this. Don’t do this.

Lay down your life with your child.

 

—Jim Jones, Jonestown “Death Speech,” November 28, 1978

Great hatred, little room,

Maimed us at the start.

I carry from my mother’s womb

A fanatic heart.

 

—William Butler Yeats