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I believe with Justin Martyr, that all good men are Christians, and I believe there have been, and are, good men in all nations, sincere and conscientious.

John Adams (1735-1826) US President (1797-1801)
Letter to Simon Miller (8 Jul 1820)

I love mankind — it’s people I can’t stand.

Charles Schulz (1922-2000) American cartoonist
Go Fly a Kite, Charlie Brown (1963)

With money in your pocket, you are wise and handsome, and you sing well too.

Other Authors and Sources
Yiddish saying

Long run salvation by men of business has never been highly regarded if it means disturbance of orderly life and convenience in the present. So inaction will be advocated in the present even though it means deep trouble in the future. Here, at least equally with communism, lies the threat to capitalism. It is what causes men who know that things are going quite wrong to say that things are fundamentally sound.

John Kenneth Galbraith (1908-2006) Canadian-American economist, diplomat, author
The Great Crash, 1929, ch. 10 “Cause and Consequence” (1954)

The gospel at its best deals with the whole man, not only his soul but his body, not only his spiritual well-being, but his material well being. Any religion that professes to be concerned about the souls of men and is not concerned about the slums that damn them, the economic conditions that strangle them and the social conditions that cripple them is a spiritually moribund religion awaiting burial.

Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968) American clergyman and reformer
Pilgrimage to Non-Violence (1960)