Quotes from Sargent Shriver

I can remember at college, living on 30-cent meals.

In the Peace Corps, the volunteer must be a fully developed, mature person. He must not join to run abroad or escape problems.

He who knows all things and believes nothing is damned.

I don't have to run the Peace Corps. I could live without seeing my picture in the newspapers and without being interviewed.

It's the most rewarding thing to be a civil servant.

The roots of racism lie deep in man's nature, wounded and bruised by original sin.

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.

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.

Does politics have to be injected into everything?

I never ride just to ride. I ride to catch a fox. I play baseball to make the team.

It is precisely our job as Catholics to speak the truth as plainly and precisely as we can.

Racists are irrational and illogical in their attempts to justify their prejudices.

If education does not create a need for the best in life, then we are stuck in an undemocratic, rigid caste society.

It is well to be prepared for life as it is, but it is better to be prepared to make life better than it is.

I don't think the Gallup Poll technique is going to be very helpful in determining the goals of our educational system.

Shatter the glass. In our society that is so self-absorbed, begin to look less at yourself and more at each other. Learn more about the face of your neighbor and less about your own.

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.

There is an alternative to war. It has been with us forever.

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.

I do not think that the educational program of our schools should be determined by what the community thinks it needs.

The Peace Corps would give thousands of young Americans a chance to see at first hand the conditions in remote areas of the world.

The Peace Corps would give thousands of young Americans a chance to see at first hand the conditions in remote areas of the world.

It is precisely our job as Catholics to speak the truth as plainly and precisely as we can.

Just to travel is rather boring, but to travel with a purpose is educational and exciting.