so this was in someone's bio (i blocked them because they were being annoying and replying to everyone who replied to a post of mine, sorry) and ... who the fuck is TCDouglas?
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Cause i googled and it's a bunch of quote pages citing a "Tommy Douglas" but like...no other sourcing? There's an entire podcast based around the quote, but no sourcing as to whether or not Douglas actually said it.
The cadence and the phrasing are heavily reminiscent of Tennyson's Ulysses, my favorite poem, which is why I was like ???? But the line in that poem is "Come my friends, tis not too late to seek a newer world." If anyone can track down the source, I'd be grateful.
It may be in some archive of speeches that I'm not thinking of right now, but knowing it was ad libbed at a time when people didn't record everything on audio/video, who knows.
It is Tommy Douglas - he was a historic progressive in Canada. I'm guessing that he was deliberately evoking Ulysses, but I'm not sure about the context.
(I don't know if he ever *actually* said it - every reference I could find looking for context just looped back around to other people talking about it - but it is a very common attribution to him among NDP circles in Canada.)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tommy_Douglas
Whether it's about founding the federal NDP party or medicare, i'm not sure. Still looking.
Approx 9 paragraphs in.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/jagmeet-singh-layton-douglas-love-courage-analysis-wherry-1.4298219
https://macleans.ca/politics/ottawa/trudeau-quoting-goethe/
https://www.georgebrown.ca/tommydouglasinstitute