Sargent Shriver

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

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

The Peace Corps is guilty of enthusiasm and a crusading spirit. But we're not apologetic about it.

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.

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

Any idealist who tries to join the Peace Corps must realize he is not going to change the world overnight.

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

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

He who knows all things and believes nothing is damned.

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

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

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