“Any idealist who tries to join the Peace Corps must realize he is not going to change the world overnight.”
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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.
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.
If education does not create a need for the best in life, then we are stuck in an undemocratic, rigid caste society.
It is precisely our job as Catholics to speak the truth as plainly and precisely as we can.
