Sargent Shriver Quotes

It is the responsibility of intellectuals to speak the truth and expose lies.

I went to work for Catholics United for the Faith, and I basically found myself in the midst of the traditionalist branch of the Catholic revival. There is an intellectual rigor that is very much valued there and that I was in awe of.

I suppose you could sum up the religious aspects of my boyhood by saying it was a time of life when I was taught the difference between right and wrong as it specifically applied to Catholicism.

All Catholics should do all in their power to cause the constitutions of states and legislation to be modeled on the principles of the true Church.

Every school that I have ever attended, except for kindergarten, I went to a Catholic institution.

What we're about is a manifestation of the Catholic roots of Boston College.

I would not call myself Catholic anymore, but I went to 16 years of Catholic school: grade school, high school and college.

We artists have the dignity to tell the truth to the people, unlike politicians.

Someone needs to tell the truth, but it shouldn't be my job.

We should not be afraid to speak the truth to our powerful friend the United States.

I'm not sure that Jesuits ever produce faithful Catholics. Because they're too fierce. It is Sturm und Drang, and it is guilt - it is all that battlefield stuff.

I do think the biggest problem newspapers have is loss of trust, and I feel that's a result of failure to speak truth to power.

I had an Irish Catholic education. Horrible nuns, vindictive and cruel.

I went to a school run by Catholic nuns. They were really strict.

I am an Irishman second: I am a Catholic first…. If the [Roman Catholic] hierarchy give me any direction with regard to Catholic social teaching or Catholic moral teaching, I accept without qualification in all respects the reaching of the hierarchy and the church to which I belong.

I cannot flinch from saying such things in public. As a Representative of the People I am duty bound to do so. Justice cries out to me not to dissemble.

Telling the truth -- telling thoughtful truths -- should not be a revolutionary act. Speaking truths to power should not be sacrificial, but they are. But I think if more of us chose to do this for the greater good, we'd be in better spaces than we are right now.

I know Marco Rubio very well. He's a friend of mine. He's a man of deep faith. He is a man who follows Catholic dogma and - you know, for whom religion is very important.

People like Dick Gregory, Paul Robeson, Harry Belafonte and Nina Simone show me what the definition of an artist is - it isn't just to make art but to speak truth to what's happening, speak beauty into the world, speak love into the world and also... get involved.

I didn't grow up in the Catholic church, but I went to a Catholic high school and a Catholic college, and the Jesuit priests are not saints floating around campus.

It is hard to speak the truth about valued national institutions. But when they are not fit for purpose, we must speak out.

Is truth about domestic violence and those who enable it more important than a company's corporate partnerships? I think so.

I think if you don't say something it's lying by omission. I personally think it's immoral.

We . . . have to open our mouths and bear testimony.

Like all virtuous people he imagines he must speak the truth.