Elijah Cummings Quotes

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Elijah Cummings

Profession : Politician

Birth : January 18, 1951

Our decisions about transportation determine much more than where roads or bridges or tunnels or rail lines will be built. They determine the connections and barriers that people will encounter in their daily lives - and thus how hard or easy it will be for people to get where they need and want to go.

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Our children are the living messages we send to a future we will ever see... Will we rob them of their destiny? Will we rob them of their dreams? No - we will not do that.

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Every time something bad happens to me, I don't ask the question, 'Why did it happen to me?' The question I ask is, 'Why did it happen for me?'

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You must have confidence in your competence.

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I try to remind people that there are a lot of good people, all colors. Then there's some bad ones, too. But there's a lot of good people who really care.

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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.

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The question is always whether all of Baltimore will rise together or whether we will leave some behind.

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I'm a lawyer, I practiced for many years, and so I believe in the Fifth Amendment.

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Voting is crucial, and I don't give a damn how you look at it: there are efforts to stop people from voting. That's not right. This is not Russia. This is the United States of America.

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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.

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The U.S. Census Bureau acknowledged this fact when it reported that those with a bachelor's degree earn on average $1 million more over their lifetime than those with only a high school diploma.

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More than 26,000 lives may be lost to the effects of drug abuse this year. This tragic impact is felt in communities across this great nation. Sadly many of these deaths occur among our young people.

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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.

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In the same vein as these events, National Minority Health Month also serves as a reminder of how much work needs to be done to eliminate health and healthcare inequities.

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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.

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

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My mom and dad, although they may not have had a lot of formal education, they were two of the most brilliant people that I know.

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I realized that with African American people, where we've been blocked from being all that God meant for us to be, I don't have time to be patient.

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I have a moral conscience that is real central.

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I'm going to try and make people realize that in order to live the life they are living, they need to have democracy, and it's being threatened.

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