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. – Sargent Shriver
Racism cannot be cured solely by attacking some of the results it produces, like discrimination in housing or in education. – Sargent Shriver
The Peace Corps would give thousands of young Americans a chance to see at first hand the conditions in remote areas of the world. – Sargent Shriver
The only genuine elite is the elite of those men and women who gave their lives to justice and charity. – Sargent Shriver
Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind. We wallow in nostalgia but manage to get it all wrong. True nostalgia is an ephemeral composition of disjointed memories… but American-style nostalgia is about as ephemeral as copyrighted d?j? vu. – Florence King