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On our blog, we share our Quote of the Week as well as other insights about our work and about our community. As our society continues to struggle with some of the same issues that Sargent Shriver focused on -- poverty, racism, inequality, war -- we believe it's important to share our stories with each other. Do you have a story to share about Sargent Shriver or about one of the issues he cared about? Share your story with us by emailing it to info@sargentshriver.org. Maybe we'll post it here!
Mar
21
A New Book about Sargent Shriver Reveals the Deep Spiritual Calling behind the Peace Corps Founder's Public Service
by Sargent Shriver Peace Institute
The Call: The Spiritual Realism of Sargent Shriver presents an imagined conversation with the Peace Corps founder that sheds light on the deep motivations that shaped his approach to leadershipNEW YORK – The Sargent Shriver Peace Institute (SSPI, ww.sargentshriver.org) has announced its...
Mar
15
Shriver's Challenge: A Call to Peace
by Sargent Shriver Peace Institute
Our Quote of the Week challenges us to be peacemakers using the unique tools and qualities we each have developed in our own lives. It reminds us of a truth that we sometimes find difficult to accept but that we must work to embrace: that peace begins with each of us.Sargent Shriver made this...
Mar
08
The Effect of Polarization on Our Schools
by Sargent Shriver Peace Institute
Our Quote of the Week underlines a reality that was true when Sargent Shriver spoke these words over 50 years ago and continues to be true today: that the polarization we see in politics adversely affects our classrooms, and by implication, our young people.In 1972, Sargent Shriver gave a...
Feb
15
We Can Touch the Stars and Renew the Earth
by Sargent Shriver Peace Institute
Our Quote of the Week reminds us of the power that human beings can release when we are free to fully engage with our two basic impulses: one rational and scientific, one creative and intuitive. We can push beyond our limits into new frontiers, and we can also heal and repair all that is broken,...
Feb
08
For Black History Month: Bringing Conversations about Race into Our Sacred Spaces
by Sargent Shriver Peace Institute
Our Quote of the Week questions why we do not bring the topic of race into our sacred spaces. Black History Month has us thinking about the different strategies Sargent Shriver used to combat anti-Black racism and White supremacy. One such strategy was to challenge the Catholic church and...
Feb
01
An Appeal for a New Justice System
by Sargent Shriver Peace Institute
Our Quote of the Week makes a broad and urgent appeal to create a more just legal system from the ground up.In the 1967 Address to the Cincinnati Bar Association, Sargent Shriver shares the positive aspects of Legal Services, the program of the War on Poverty that provides free legal...
Jan
25
How Violence Tests Our Unity
by Sargent Shriver Peace Institute
Our Quote of the Week invites us to address a central obstacle to our achievement of unity: the violence that too many of us experience in our society. From the many ways that gun violence traumatizes our communities to the more passive manifestations of violence that eat away at the fabric of...
Jan
18
"If you want to change the world, start small"
by Sargent Shriver Peace Institute
Our Quote of the Week guides us towards the loftiest of goals, that of changing the world. It reminds us that ambitious change can start immediately, so long as we begin with one small, concrete step.In 1965, Sargent Shriver gave this address to the graduating students at St. John’s University in...
