Religion
- Mother Cabrini, first citizen of the US to be canonized by the Roman Catholic Church; lived and died in Chicago
- Mircea Eliade, religious scholar and philosopher from Romanian
- Mordecai Ham, 20th Century evangelist
- Jesse Jackson, minister, civil rights activist, presidential candidate
- James Patterson Lyke, Franciscan friar & Roman Catholic bishop
- Jacques Marquette, missionary
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Famous quotes containing the word religion:
“Unless criticism refuses to take itself quite so seriously or at least to permit its readers not to, it will inevitably continue to reflect the finicky canons of the genteel tradition and the depressing pieties of the Culture Religion of Modernism.”
—Leslie Fiedler (b. 1917)
“Surely the day will come when color means nothing more than skin tone, when religion is seen uniquely as a way to speak one’s soul; when birth places have the weight of a throw of the dice and all men are born free, when understanding breeds love and brotherhood.”
—Josephine Baker (1906–1975)
“I never saw, heard, nor read, that the clergy were beloved in any nation where Christianity was the religion of the country. Nothing can render them popular, but some degree of persecution.”
—Jonathan Swift (1667–1745)