“We are mourning today a great Canadian and a great leader. He was a friend, he was a colleague for many of us, if not all of us.”

— Nycole Turmel

Turmel vows to stay on until NDP chooses leader http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/story/2011/08/23/pol-ndp-turmel.html, August 23, 2011.

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Canadian politician 1942

Colin Campbell Mitchell (1925–1996) British Army officer and politician

Lt Col Colin Mitchell http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/7111303.stm.

“He used to say that it was better to have one friend of great value than many friends who were good for nothing.”

Diogenes Laërtius (180–240) biographer of ancient Greek philosophers

Anarcharsis, 5.
The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers (c. 200 A.D.), Book 2: Socrates, his predecessors and followers

“Bury the Great Duke
With an empire's lamentation;
Let us bury the Great Duke
To the noise of the mourning of a mighty nation;
Mourning when their leaders fall,
Warriors carry the warrior's pall,
And sorrow darkens hamlet and hall.”

Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809–1892) British poet laureate

St. I
Ode on the Death of the Duke of Wellington (1852)

“Great leaders and great organizations are good at seeing what most of us can’t see. They are good at giving us things we would never think of asking for.”

Simon Sinek (1973) British/American author and motivational speaker

Source: Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action

“Lives of great men all remind us greatness takes no easy way.
All the heroes of tomorrow are the heretics of today.”

Yip Harburg (1896–1981) American song lyricist

As quoted in "A Tribute to Yip Harburg: The Man Who Put the Rainbow in the Wizard of Oz" at Democracy Now (25 November 2004) http://www.democracynow.org/2004/11/25/a_tribute_to_yip_harburg_the.
Context: Lives of great men all remind us greatness takes no easy way.
All the heroes of tomorrow are the heretics of today.
Socrates and Galileo, John Brown, Thoreau, Christ, and Debs
Heard the night cry down with traitors, and the dawn shout "Up the reds!"

“We have lost a great Canadian. We have lost a friend. But I know that when I look out at all of you I am looking at Jack Layton's legacy.”

Nycole Turmel (1942) Canadian politician

Jack Layton's feathers passed on to Nycole Turmel http://www.montrealgazette.com/news/Jack+Layton+feathers+passed+Nycole+Turmel/5401459/story.html September 14, 2011.

“Barack believes in the greatness of America. He’s seen it in his own life’s journey. But he also knows that what’s holding us back is that our leaders have lost touch with the ideals that make this country great. Ideals like equality. Justice. Freedom from want and despair. And he believes that until we restore a sense of common destiny and shared purpose; until we understand that we are only as strong as the weakest among us; that there is more that binds us together than drives us apart; until we see ourselves in one another – until we truly care for all children; not just our own then we will continue to struggle with the problems that plague us.”

Michelle Obama (1964) lawyer, writer, wife of Barack Obama and former First Lady of the United States

2000s, A Challenge to Overcome (November 2007)

“He (Tony Stark) is flawed, but he’s a great man. He goes through this whole incredible resurrection. He really takes adversity and uses it as an opportunity and that’s a sign of greatness.”

Gwyneth Paltrow (1972) American actress, singer, and food writer

“We all know that great leaders can create great successes…success for the Chicago public education fund is to bring great leaders into Chicago's public schools.”

Kenneth Griffin (1968) American hedge fund manager

Video commentary featured on website of the Chicago Public Education Fund http://www.cpef.org/nm_video.htm#

“We have to do it and we will do it. We represent Canadians but Canadians will be there for us too”

Nycole Turmel (1942) Canadian politician

Turmel vows to stay on until NDP chooses leader http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/story/2011/08/23/pol-ndp-turmel.html August 23, 2011.

“We are mourning today a great Canadian and a great leader. He was a friend, he was a colleague for many of us, if not all of us.”

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