
Kay Granger
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American diplomat, politician and activist (1915-2011)
Sargent Shriver was a remarkable American diplomat, politician, and activist. He was the driving force behind the creation of the Peace Corps and founded several other impactful programs as part of the War on Poverty. Shriver also served as the Democratic nominee for vice president in the 1972 election.
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Robert Sargent Shriver Jr.was an American diplomat, politician, and activist. He was a member of the Shriver family by birth, and a member of the Kennedy family through his marriage to Eunice Kennedy. Shriver was the driving force behind the creation of the Peace Corps, and founded the Job Corps, Head Start, VISTA, Upward Bound, and other programs as the architect of the 1960s War on Poverty. He was the Democratic Party’s nominee for vice president in the 1972 presidential election.
Born in Westminster, Maryland, Shriver attended Yale University, then Yale Law School, graduating in 1941. An opponent of U.S. entry into World War II, he helped establish the America First Committee but volunteered for the United States Navy before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. During the war, he served in the South Pacific, participating in the Naval Battle of Guadalcanal. After being discharged from the navy, he worked as an assistant editor for Newsweek and met Eunice Kennedy, marrying her in 1953.
He worked on the 1960 presidential campaign of his brother-in-law, John F. Kennedy, and helped establish the Peace Corps after Kennedy’s victory. After Kennedy’s assassination, Shriver served in the administration of Lyndon B. Johnson and helped establish several anti-poverty programs as director of the Office of Economic Opportunity from October 16, 1964, to March 22, 1968. He also served as the United States Ambassador to France from 1968 to 1970. In 1972, Democratic vice presidential nominee Thomas Eagleton resigned from the ticket, and Shriver was chosen as his replacement. The Democratic ticket of George McGovern and Shriver lost in a landslide election defeat to Republican President Richard Nixon and Vice President Spiro Agnew. Shriver briefly sought the 1976 Democratic presidential nomination but dropped out of the race after the first set of primaries.
After leaving office, he resumed the practice of law, becoming a partner with Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson. He also served as president of the Special Olympics and was briefly a part-owner of the Baltimore Orioles. He was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease in 2003 and died in Bethesda, Maryland, in 2011.
Sargent Shriver was an American diplomat, politician, and activist who was the driving force behind the creation of the Peace Corps and founded several other programs as part of the War on Poverty in the 1960s.
Sargent Shriver was a member of the Shriver family by birth, and he became a member of the Kennedy family through his marriage to Eunice Kennedy.
Sargent Shriver founded the Job Corps, Head Start, VISTA, Upward Bound, and other programs as the architect of the 1960s War on Poverty.
Sargent Shriver was the Democratic Party’s nominee for vice president in the 1972 presidential election, running alongside George McGovern.
Sargent Shriver was born in Westminster, Maryland, and he died in Bethesda, Maryland in 2011.
Sargent Shriver served in the United States Navy during World War II, participating in the Naval Battle of Guadalcanal in the South Pacific.
Sargent Shriver worked on the 1960 presidential campaign of his brother-in-law, John F. Kennedy, and helped establish the Peace Corps after Kennedy’s victory.
The roots of racism lie deep in man’s nature, wounded and bruised by original sin.
American diplomat, politician and activist (1915-2011)
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?
American diplomat, politician and activist (1915-2011)
Being accused of enthusiasm is something I’ll never live down.
American diplomat, politician and activist (1915-2011)
In the Peace Corps, the volunteer must be a fully developed, mature person. He must not join to run abroad or escape problems.
American diplomat, politician and activist (1915-2011)
I can remember at college, living on 30-cent meals.
American diplomat, politician and activist (1915-2011)
He who knows all things and believes nothing is damned.
American diplomat, politician and activist (1915-2011)
Jews have suffered persecution from misguided Christians who tortured the Jews for their part in killing Christ. These Christians forgot that Christ died because of the sins of all men.
American diplomat, politician and activist (1915-2011)
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.
American diplomat, politician and activist (1915-2011)
Does politics have to be injected into everything?
American diplomat, politician and activist (1915-2011)
Christian virtues unite men. Racism separates them.
American diplomat, politician and activist (1915-2011)
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.
American diplomat, politician and activist (1915-2011)
We must treat the disease of racism. This means we must understand the disease.
American diplomat, politician and activist (1915-2011)
Do the job first. Worry about the clearance later.
American diplomat, politician and activist (1915-2011)
Racism cannot be cured solely by attacking some of the results it produces, like discrimination in housing or in education.
American diplomat, politician and activist (1915-2011)
The Peace Corps is guilty of enthusiasm and a crusading spirit. But we’re not apologetic about it.
American diplomat, politician and activist (1915-2011)
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.
American diplomat, politician and activist (1915-2011)
If a young person has any idealism at all, it’s strongest about the time he finishes college.
American diplomat, politician and activist (1915-2011)
A line has to be drawn somewhere between what is essential and what is peripheral.
American diplomat, politician and activist (1915-2011)
Just to travel is rather boring, but to travel with a purpose is educational and exciting.
American diplomat, politician and activist (1915-2011)
When Roosevelt came along, I approved of his program, generally. I figured an economic system should work for people, not vice versa.
American diplomat, politician and activist (1915-2011)
Working in an underdeveloped land for two or three years, the volunteer will often find that his work is routine and full of frustration.
American diplomat, politician and activist (1915-2011)
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.
American diplomat, politician and activist (1915-2011)
If education does not create a need for the best in life, then we are stuck in an undemocratic, rigid caste society.
American diplomat, politician and activist (1915-2011)
I don’t have to run the Peace Corps. I could live without seeing my picture in the newspapers and without being interviewed.
American diplomat, politician and activist (1915-2011)
I don’t think the Gallup Poll technique is going to be very helpful in determining the goals of our educational system.
American diplomat, politician and activist (1915-2011)
It is precisely our job as Catholics to speak the truth as plainly and precisely as we can.
American diplomat, politician and activist (1915-2011)
Any idealist who tries to join the Peace Corps must realize he is not going to change the world overnight.
American diplomat, politician and activist (1915-2011)
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.
American diplomat, politician and activist (1915-2011)
I never ride just to ride. I ride to catch a fox. I play baseball to make the team.
American diplomat, politician and activist (1915-2011)
The Peace Corps would give thousands of young Americans a chance to see at first hand the conditions in remote areas of the world.
American diplomat, politician and activist (1915-2011)
My parents had always preached the virtues of hard work. But hard work is one thing; economic struggle is another.
American diplomat, politician and activist (1915-2011)
I do not think that the educational program of our schools should be determined by what the community thinks it needs.
American diplomat, politician and activist (1915-2011)
It’s the most rewarding thing to be a civil servant.
American diplomat, politician and activist (1915-2011)
There is an alternative to war. It has been with us forever.
American diplomat, politician and activist (1915-2011)
My parents were second cousins. That is enough to explain all of my peculiarities.
American diplomat, politician and activist (1915-2011)
Racists are irrational and illogical in their attempts to justify their prejudices.
American diplomat, politician and activist (1915-2011)
The only genuine elite is the elite of those men and women who gave their lives to justice and charity.
American diplomat, politician and activist (1915-2011)
The natural idealism of youth is an idealism, alas, for which we do not always provide as many outlets as we should.
American diplomat, politician and activist (1915-2011)
It wouldn’t kill me if I were never nominated or elected to anything.
American diplomat, politician and activist (1915-2011)
I hate goofballs.
American diplomat, politician and activist (1915-2011)
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.
American diplomat, politician and activist (1915-2011)