Sargent Shriver Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“The Peace Corps represents some, if not all, of the best virtues in this society. It stands for everything that America has ever stood for. It stands for everything we believe in and hope to achieve in the world.”
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“It is not what you get out of life that counts. It's what you give and what is given from the heart.”
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“Does politics have to be injected into everything?”
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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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“Just to travel is rather boring, but to travel with a purpose is educational and exciting.”
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“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.”
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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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“The only genuine elite is the elite of those men and women who gave their lives to justice and charity.”
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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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“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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“The Peace Corps is guilty of enthusiasm and a crusading spirit. But we're not apologetic about it.”
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“When Roosevelt came along, I approved of his program, generally. I figured an economic system should work for people, not vice versa.”
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“Christian virtues unite men. Racism separates them.”
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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 were second cousins. That is enough to explain all of my peculiarities.”
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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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“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.”
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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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“If education does not create a need for the best in life, then we are stuck in an undemocratic, rigid caste society.”
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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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“We must treat the disease of racism. This means we must understand the disease.”
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“Racism cannot be cured solely by attacking some of the results it produces, like discrimination in housing or in education.”
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“Working in an underdeveloped land for two or three years, the volunteer will often find that his work is routine and full of frustration.”
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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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“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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“Serve, serve, serve. Because in the end, it will be the servants who save us all.”
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“The roots of racism lie deep in man's nature, wounded and bruised by original sin.”
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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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“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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