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http://www.ozpolitic.com/forum/YaBB.pl General Discussion >> General Board >> Greatest Eulogies of all time http://www.ozpolitic.com/forum/YaBB.pl?num=1629888446 Message started by NorthOfNorth on Aug 25^th, 2021 at 8:47pm

Title: Greatest Eulogies of all time
Post by NorthOfNorth on Aug 25^th, 2021 at 8:47pm

In no particular order

Martin Luther King's previously recorded eulogy for his own funeral

Noel Person for Gough Whitlam: 'Only those who have known discrimination, truly know its evil.[] This old man man was one of those rare people who never suffered discrimination, but understood the importance of protection from its malice'.

Billy Crystal for Muhammad Ali

Title: Re: Greatest Eulogies of all time
Post by Yadda on Aug 25^th, 2021 at 10:33pm

Senator Ted Kennedy giving the eulogy for his older brother, Robert F. Kennedy.

Title: Re: Greatest Eulogies of all time
Post by NorthOfNorth on Aug 25^th, 2021 at 10:47pm

Yadda wrote on Aug 25^th, 2021 at 10:33pm:

Senator Ted Kennedy giving the eulogy for his older brother, Robert F. Kennedy.

Yes.

My brother need not be idealized, or enlarged in death beyond what he was in life; to be remembered simply as a good and decent man, who saw wrong and tried to right it, saw suffering and tried to heal it, saw war and tried to stop it.