Just to travel is rather boring, but to travel with a purpose is educational and exciting.

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

Racism cannot be cured solely by attacking some of the results it produces, like discrimination in housing or in education.

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.

In the Peace Corps, the volunteer must be a fully developed, mature person. He must not join to run abroad or escape problems.

My parents had always preached the virtues of hard work. But hard work is one thing; economic struggle is another.

The roots of racism lie deep in man's nature, wounded and bruised by original sin.