Elijah Cummings Quotes

• Americans of our own time - minority and majority Americans alike - need the continued guidance that the Voting Rights Act provides. We have come a long way, but more needs to be done.

  Elijah Cummings

  Rights, Long, Voting

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• By providing students in our Nation with such an education, we help save our children from the clutches of poverty, crime, drugs, and hopelessness, and we help safeguard our Nation's prosperity for generations yet unborn.

  Elijah Cummings

  Children, Drug, Generations

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• Many of these Americans who are struggling to survive are Americans of color, .. Their cries for assistance confront America with a test of our moral compass as a nation.

  Elijah Cummings

  Struggle, Compassion, Color

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• People want transparency in government.

  Elijah Cummings

  Government, People, Want

  "Rep. Elijah Cummings Leads Call To Investigate Trump's Business Entanglements". "Marketplace" with Audie Cornish, nhpr.org. November 29, 2016.

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• Today House Republicans are doing what they always do - using taxpayers' money to continue investigating claims that have already been debunked just to keep them in the headlines one more day.

  Elijah Cummings

  House, Today, Republican

  "FBI Director Faces Congress Over Hillary Clinton Email Investigation". "All Things Considered" with Carrie Johnson, www.npr.org. July 7, 2016.

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• All you have to do is follow the money and if you follow the money, it leads right back to Donald Trump's pockets.

  Elijah Cummings

  Pockets, Trump, Ifs

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• I don't want anybody to be confused that the issue of police and community is one part of a broader set of issues. Our children need to be properly educated. They need to be trained so that they can get jobs and be functional.

  Elijah Cummings

  Jobs, Children, Confused

  "Freddie Gray homicide reaction: Baltimore cheers, weeps" by John Blake, Michael Martinez, www.cnn.com. May 2, 2015.

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• The American people have a right to know that, when Donald Trump's making decisions, they are being made in their best interests without him lining his pockets.

  Elijah Cummings

  People, Decision, Pockets

  Source: www.npr.org

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• It was to carry the American democratic journey beyond these failings that Black citizens and civil rights workers risked unemployment, violence and death.

  Elijah Cummings

  Journey, Rights, Hymns

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• African-American women account for 67 percent of all newly diagnosed female AIDS cases.

  Elijah Cummings

  African American, Female, Aids

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• Typically diagnosed during childhood and adolescent years, juvenile diabetes, also referred to as Type I diabetes, currently affects more than 3 million Americans and more then 13,000 children are diagnosed each year.

  Elijah Cummings

  Children, Years, Childhood

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