Sargent Shriver
Sargent Shriver
Robert Sargent "Sarge" Shriver Jr.was an American politician and activist. As the husband of Eunice Kennedy Shriver, he was part of the Kennedy family, serving in the Kennedy and Johnson administrations. Shriver was the driving force behind the creation of the Peace Corps, founded the Job Corps, Head Start and other programs as the "architect" of Johnson's "War on Poverty" and served as the U.S. Ambassador to France...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth9 November 1915
CountryUnited States of America
Sargent Shriver quotes about
Does politics have to be injected into everything?
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.
It is not what you get out of life that counts. It's what you give and what is given from the heart.
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.
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.
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.
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!
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.