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My parents were second cousins. That is enough to explain all of my peculiarities.
— Sargent Shriver
I don't have to run the Peace Corps. I could live without seeing my picture in the newspapers and without being interviewed.
— Sargent Shriver
It wouldn't kill me if I were never nominated or elected to anything.
— Sargent Shriver
Respect for another man's opinion is worthy. It is the realization that any opinion is valuable, for it is the sign of a rational being.
— Sargent Shriver
Just to travel is rather boring, but to travel with a purpose is educational and exciting.
— Sargent Shriver
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.
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Racists are irrational and illogical in their attempts to justify their prejudices.
— Sargent Shriver
Does politics have to be injected into everything?
— Sargent Shriver
My parents had always preached the virtues of hard work. But hard work is one thing; economic struggle is another.
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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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Being accused of enthusiasm is something I'll never live down.
— Sargent Shriver
Do the job first. Worry about the clearance later.
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The Peace Corps is guilty of enthusiasm and a crusading spirit. But we're not apologetic about it.
— Sargent Shriver
When Roosevelt came along, I approved of his program, generally. I figured an economic system should work for people, not vice versa.
— Sargent Shriver
I hate goofballs.
— Sargent Shriver
There is an alternative to war. It has been with us forever.
— Sargent Shriver
If a young person has any idealism at all, it's strongest about the time he finishes college.
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It is precisely our job as Catholics to speak the truth as plainly and precisely as we can.
— Sargent Shriver
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.
— Sargent Shriver
A line has to be drawn somewhere between what is essential and what is peripheral.
— Sargent Shriver
In the Peace Corps, the volunteer must be a fully developed, mature person. He must not join to run abroad or escape problems.
— Sargent Shriver
It's the most rewarding thing to be a civil servant.
— Sargent Shriver
I never ride just to ride. I ride to catch a fox. I play baseball to make the team.
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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.
— Sargent Shriver
Any idealist who tries to join the Peace Corps must realize he is not going to change the world overnight.
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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.
— Sargent Shriver
The only genuine elite is the elite of those men and women who gave their lives to justice and charity.
— Sargent Shriver
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.
— Sargent Shriver
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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If education does not create a need for the best in life, then we are stuck in an undemocratic, rigid caste society.
— Sargent Shriver
I do not think that the educational program of our schools should be determined by what the community thinks it needs.
— Sargent Shriver
I can remember at college, living on 30-cent meals.
— Sargent Shriver
He who knows all things and believes nothing is damned.
— Sargent Shriver
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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The Peace Corps would give thousands of young Americans a chance to see at first hand the conditions in remote areas of the world.
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The roots of racism lie deep in man's nature, wounded and bruised by original sin.
— Sargent Shriver