Over a century after his birth, we remember him as someone who could see the best in us—and who knew how to inspire us to realize his vision of a more peaceful world.

Head Start is an invaluable program that provides education, health services, nutrition, and more to young children, as well as support and training opportunities for their caregivers.

To read more of Sargent Shriver's words about Native Americans, check out his Address to the National Conference of American Indians. Happy Indigenous Peoples' Day!
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As the US deals with a government shutdown that leaves four million employees without pay, residents across the country without services, and may result in up to 750,000 layoffs, we must ask ourselves: who is benefiting from this political stand-off?

... and we must act in ways that allow us to finally fulfill the promise of a society in which individual rights are protected and a more peaceful world is achieved.

As civil rights, human rights, rights to privacy, religious liberty, and free speech come under attack, we must defend them with courage and clarity of mind.

Today, we must heed Shriver’s call to defend the values behind the revolution that brought the US into existence. Every day, we are reminded that cannot take our rights and freedoms for granted.

Throughout his life, Sargent Shriver acknowledged that the US had never fully achieved its aspiration to ensure basic rights and dignity for all human beings, but he pushed himself and those around him to create a society that would do just that.