Sargent Shriver Quotes

• Christian virtues unite men. Racism separates them.

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

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

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

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  Tags in Educational, Program

• 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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• Being accused of enthusiasm is something I’ll never live down.

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• Does politics have to be injected into everything?

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• Do the job first. Worry about the clearance later.

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  Tags in Worry

• 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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  Tags in Dignity

• 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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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Think, Technique

• 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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  Tags in Peace, Corps

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

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  Tags in Peace

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

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  Tags in Catch

• I hate goofballs.

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  Tags in Hate

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

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Idealism

• 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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  Topics in Education

Sargent Shriver (41)

Birth:	9th November, 1915
Death:	18th January, 2011
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Activist, Attorney, Politician

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