Sargent Shriver Quotes
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I want to warn anyone who sees the Peace Corps as an alternative to the draft that life may well be easier at Fort Dix or at apost in Germany than it will be with us.
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The natural idealism of youth is an idealism, alas, for which we do not always provide as many outlets as we should.
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As far as I was concerned, the Depression was an ill wind that blew some good. If it hadn't occurred, my parents would have given me my college education. As it was, I had to scrabble for it.
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The Peace Corps is guilty of enthusiasm and a crusading spirit. But we're not apologetic about it.
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Serve, serve, serve. Because in the end, it will be the servants who save us all.
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The only genuine elite is the elite of those men and women who gave their lives to justice and charity.
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Do we talk about the dignity of work? Do we give our students any reason for believing it is worthwhile to sacrifice for their work because such sacrifices improve the psychological and mental health of the person who makes them?
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Just to travel is rather boring, but to travel with a purpose is educational and exciting.
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One of the things Mr. Kennedy taught me was that in laying out a new project, you shouldn't try to cope with every little problem.
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The cure is care. Caring for others is the practice of peace. Caring becomes as important as curing. Caring produces the cure, not the reverse. Caring about nuclear war and its victims is the beginning of a cure for our obsession with war. Peace does not comes through strength. Quite the opposite: Strength comes through peace. The practices of peace strengthen us for every vicissitude. . . . The task is immense!
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Peace requires the simple but powerful recognition that what we have in common as human beings is more important and crucial than what divides us.
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In the Peace Corps, the volunteer must be a fully developed, mature person. He must not join to run abroad or escape problems.
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What can change the world today is the same thing that has changed it in the past-an idea and the service of dedicated, committed individuals to that idea.
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He who knows all things and believes nothing is damned.
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If a young person has any idealism at all, it's strongest about the time he finishes college.
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Racists are irrational and illogical in their attempts to justify their prejudices.
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My parents were second cousins. That is enough to explain all of my peculiarities.
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Any idealist who tries to join the Peace Corps must realize he is not going to change the world overnight.
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It is precisely our job as Catholics to speak the truth as plainly and precisely as we can.
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The most important thing that I know about living is love. Nothing surpasses the benefits received by a human being who makes compassion and love the objective of his or her life. For it is only by compassion and love that anyone fulfills successfully their own life’s journey. Nothing equals love.
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But as a philosopher said, one day after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, after all the scientific and technological achievements, we shall harness for God the energies of love. And then, for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.
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My parents had always preached the virtues of hard work. But hard work is one thing; economic struggle is another.
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I don't think the Gallup Poll technique is going to be very helpful in determining the goals of our educational system.
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The Peace Corps would give thousands of young Americans a chance to see at first hand the conditions in remote areas of the world.