Politicians / Government Officials / Civic Leaders/Educators
- Frank Annunzio, U.S. Representative from Illinois (1965–1993)
- Michael A. Bilandic, past Mayor of Chicago
- Barry Bradford, teacher, author, public speaker, famous for helping reopen the Mississippi Burning Case, and the Clyde Kennard Case. National Teacher Of The Year, Illinois Teacher Of The Year, and winner of the Golden Apple Award for Excellence In Teaching, as well as a Presidential Citation For Civilian Service.
- Anne M. Burke, Illinois Supreme Court Justice, 1st District
- Joseph Burke, judge of the Illinois Appellate Court (1939–76)
- Edwin R. Chess, Chief of Chaplains of the U.S. Air Force
- Richard M. Daley, former Mayor of Chicago
- Richard J. Daley, former Mayor of Chicago
- Terrance Gainer, Sergeant at Arms of the United States Senate
- Arthur J. Goldberg, 9th United States Secretary of Labor, former United States Supreme Court Justice, and former United States Ambassador to the United Nations.
- Benjamin Hooks, former Executive Director of the NAACP
- Laura Spurr, Chairwoman of the Nottawaseppi Huron Band of Potawatomi (2000–2001, 2003–2010)
- Samuel Skinner, former Chief Federal Prosecutor, U.S. Secretary of Transportation; Chief of Staff to President George H. W. Bush
- Charles E. Tucker, Jr., U.S. Air National Guard Brigadier General
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Famous quotes containing the words politicians, government, officials, civic, leaders and/or educators:
“Practically speaking, the opponents to a reform in Massachusetts are not a hundred thousand politicians at the South, but a hundred thousand merchants and farmers here, who are more interested in commerce and agriculture than they are in humanity, and are not prepared to do justice to the slave and to Mexico, cost what it may. I quarrel not with far-off foes, but with those who, near at home, coöperate with, and do the bidding of, those far away, and without whom the latter would be harmless.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“But the wise know that foolish legislation is a rope of sand, which perishes in the twisting; that the State must follow, and not lead the character and progress of the citizen; the strongest usurper is quickly got rid of; and they only who build on Ideas, build for eternity; and that the form of government which prevails, is the expression of what cultivation exists in the population which permits it.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“The conflict between the men who make and the men who report the news is as old as time. News may be true, but it is not truth, and reporters and officials seldom see it the same way.... In the old days, the reporters or couriers of bad news were often put to the gallows; now they are given the Pulitzer Prize, but the conflict goes on.”
—James Reston (b. 1909)
“It is hereby earnestly proposed that the USA would be much better off if that big, sprawling, incoherent, shapeless, slobbering civic idiot in the family of American communities, the City of Los Angeles, could be declared incompetent and placed in charge of a guardian like any individual mental defective.”
—Westbrook Pegler (1894–1969)
“Signal smokes, war drums, feathered bonnets against the western sky. New messiahs, young leaders are ready to hurl the finest light cavalry in the world against Fort Stark. In the Kiowa village, the beat of drums echoes in the pulsebeat of the young braves. Fighters under a common banner, old quarrels forgotten, Comanche rides with Arapaho, Apache with Cheyenne. All chant of war. War to drive the white man forever from the red man’s hunting ground.”
—Frank S. Nugent (1908–1965)
“The great want of our race is perfect educators to train new-born minds, who are infallible teachers of what is right and true.”
—Catherine E. Beecher (1800–1878)