"I’ve often said our children are the living messages we send to a future that we will never see. But now our children are sending us to a future that they will never see. There’s something wrong with this picture."
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Democratic Party (United States) politiciansMembers of the United States House of RepresentativesBaptists from the United States20th-century African-American peoplePoliticians from Baltimore
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Speech at the funeral of Freddie Gray (April 27, 2015)
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Elijah Cummings
Elijah Cummings (18 January 1951 – 17 October 2019) was an American politician of the Democratic Party who served as the U.S. representative for Maryland's 7th congressional district from 1996 to 2019. He previously served in the Maryland House of Delegates.
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