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.

I believe strongly in the Constitutional principle of separating church and state. Our founders were right in fearing that religious freedom would be threatened in the long run by a departure from governmental neutrality in spiritual matters.

We must treat the disease of racism. This means we must understand the disease.

Serve, serve, serve. Because in the end, it will be the servants who save us all.

Working in an underdeveloped land for two or three years, the volunteer will often find that his work is routine and full of frustration.

If education does not create a need for the best in life, then we are stuck in an undemocratic, rigid caste society.

Christian virtues unite men. Racism separates them.