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Famous Eulogies by Famous People at Famous People's Funerals
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Here are some of the most infamous eulogizers ever:
| | Walt Whitman in 1865 for President Abraham Lincoln 'O Captain! my Captain! our fearful trip is done; The ship has weather’d every rack, the prize we sought is won...' | | | Robert F. Kennedy on April 5, 1968 for Martin Luther King, Jr. ''I have some very sad news for all of you, and, I think, sad news for all of our fellow citizens, and people who love peace all over the world; and that is that [name] was shot and was killed tonight in Memphis, Tennessee.' | | | Archbishop Desmond Tutu on September 25, 1977 for Stephen Biko 'We too, like the disciples of Jesus, have been stunned by the death of another man in his thirties. A young man dedicated to the pursuit of justice and reconciliation...' | | | Charles Spencer on September 6, 1997 for Princess Diana Spencer 'I stand before you today the representative of a family in grief, in a country in mourning before a world in shock.' | | | Jawaharlal Nehru on February 2, 1948 for Mahatma Mohandas Gandhi ' Great men and eminent men have monuments in bronze and marble set up for them, but this man of divine fire managed in his lifetime to become enshrined in millions and millions of hearts so that all of us became somewhat of the stuff that he was made of...' | | | Ernst Straus on May 22, 1955 for Albert Einstein 'His greatest sorrow was that, as he would say, 'I'll have to bite the dust before finding our whether this theory is the right one.' I do not believe he ever seriously entertained the thought that there might be no such perfect theory as the one he was seeking...' | | | Frank Oz on July 2, 1990 for Jim Henson '...he appreciated the performances and design of a puppet. He appreciated the art objects that he might buy. He appreciated the detail in a Persian rug. He appreciated...just beauty.' | | | Ossie Davis on February 25, 1965 for Malcolm X 'Here - at this final hour, in this quiet place - Harlem has come to bid farewell to one of its brightest hopes, extinguished now and gone forever. For Harlem is where he worked and where he struggled and fought...' | | | Senator Lister Hill of Alabama on June 5, 1968 for Helen Keller 'Although she was denied the light of day, [she] cast more of the radiance of heaven than any person on this earth. Within this radiance and the light and example of her life, may we carry on in our troubled world, worthy of her deeds, her hope, and her faith...' | | | King Hussein of Jordan on November 6, 1995 for Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin 'I never thought that the moment would come like this, when I would grieve the loss of a brother, a colleague and a friend, a man, a soldier who met us on the opposite side of a divide, whom we respected as he respected us...' | | | Maxim Gorky on 1924 for Vladimir Ilyitch Lenin '[he] is dead. But those to whom he bequeathed his wisdom and his will are living. They are alive and working more successfully than anyone on Earth has ever worked before.' | | | Robert Dole on April 27, 1994 for President Richard M. Nixon 'One of his biographers said that [he] was one of us. And so he was. He was a boy who heard the train whistle in the night and dreamed of all the distant places that lay at the end of the track. How American. He was a grocer's son who got ahead by working harder and longer than everyone else. How American.' | | | Winston Churchill on November, 1940 for Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain 'Whatever else history may or may not say about these terrible, tremendous years, we can be sure that [he] acted with perfect sincerity according to his lights and strove to the utmost of his capacity and authority, which were powerful, to save the world from the awful, devastating struggle in which we are now engaged. | | | Madonna in 1997 for Gianni Versace 'I'm going to miss you, [name]. We're all going to miss you. But I've got a pocketful of memories in my [Brand name] jeans, and they're not going anywhere.' | | | Dragutin Plasc on May 4, 1980 for President Josip Broz Tito 'Nothing and nobody will stop us on the path of socialist self-management and non-alignment, freedom and independence. Comrade [name], from your way, we swear never to stray' | | | Friedrich Engels on March 17, 1883 for Karl Marx 'On the 14th of March, at a quarter to three in the afternoon, the greatest living thinker ceased to think. He had been left alone for scarcely two minutes, and when we came back we found him in his armchair, peacefully gone to sleep-but forever.' | | | Edward M. Kennedy on June 8, 1968 for Senator Robert F. Kennedy '[he] 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.' | | | Nobura Takeshita on February 24, 1989 for Emperor Hirohito 'the late emperor ardently wished for world peace and the well-being of the people, and devoted himself to these ideals.' | | | Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger on April 8, 2005 for Pope John Paul II 'To the Lord's question, 'Karol, do you love me?,' the Archbishop of Krakow answered from the depths of his heart: 'Lord you know everything; you know that I love you.'' | | | Fidel Castro in October 18, 1967 for Che Guevara '...the comrade who fought beside us, who was not born in this land, who was a man of profound ideas, who was a man who dreamt of struggle in other parts of the continent - and yet that altruism, to risk his life constantly.' |
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