Elijah Cummings famous 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

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 #Black

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 #Poverty

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

#African American #Female #Aids

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

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

People want transparency in government.
-- Elijah Cummings

#Government #People #Want

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

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

I don't know whether you have any rights before you're born. All I know is that being born again doesn't entitle you to twice as many.

As to women, the Islamic faith has given women rights that are equal to or more than the rights given them in the Old Testament and the Bible.

How long does getting thin take?

As long as you want anything very much, especially more than you want God, it is an idol.

I tried the paleo diet, which is the caveman diet - lots of meat. And I tried the calorie restriction diet: The idea is that if you eat very, very little - if you're on the verge of starvation, you will live a very long time, whether or not you want to, of course.

A human lifespan is less than a thousand months long. You need to make some time to think how to live it.

It's hard to say what I want my legacy to be when I'm long gone.

So long as the human spirit thrives on this planet, music in some living form will accompany and sustain it and give it expressive meaning.

But did you know that during the past quarter century, no presidential election has been won by more than ten million ballots cast? Yet every federal election during the same time period had at least one hundred million people of voting age who did not bother to vote!

No one questions the validity, the urgency, the essentiality of the Voting Rights Act.