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October 28, 2019

Obama Praises Elijah Cummings at Funeral for Late Congressman
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Former President Barack Obama praised longtime Congressmember Elijah
Cummings at his funeral Friday in Baltimore, after his body lay in state
in the U.S. Capitol. Cummings was the first African-American lawmaker to
receive the honor. He spent decades championing the rights of African
Americans and the poor - first as a civil rights activist and later as a
Maryland State legislator, before being elected to represent his
Baltimore district in the House of Representatives 13 times. This is
President Obama.

President Obama: "Elijah Cummings was a man of noble and good heart. His
parents and his faith planted the seeds of hope, and love, and
compassion, and righteousness in that good soil of his. He has harvested
all the crops that he could, for the Lord has now called Elijah home, to
give his humble, faithful servant rest. And it now falls on us to
continue his work, so that other young boys and girls from Baltimore,
across Maryland, across the United States, and around the world might
too have a chance to grow and to flourish."

That was President Obama speaking Friday in Baltimore at the late
Congressmember Elijah Cummings's funeral. He died earlier this month at
the age of 68.


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