Sargent Shriver

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

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

“Joe Kennedy isn't in the habit of having incompetents around. I wouldn't have lasted three months if I didn't have some ability.”

“Being accused of enthusiasm is something I'll never live down.”

“Christian virtues unite men. Racism separates them.”

“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?”

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

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

“Racism cannot be cured solely by attacking some of the results it produces, like discrimination in housing or in education.”

“If a young person has any idealism at all, it's strongest about the time he finishes college.”

“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.”

“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.”

“It wouldn't kill me if I were never nominated or elected to anything.”

“A line has to be drawn somewhere between what is essential and what is peripheral.”

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

“My parents were second cousins. That is enough to explain all of my peculiarities.”

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

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

“The natural idealism of youth is an idealism, alas, for which we do not always provide as many outlets as we should.”

“The only genuine elite is the elite of those men and women who gave their lives to justice and charity.”