08/27/2008
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"But Elijah Cummings was honorable before he was elected to office."
"There is nothing weak about kindness and compassion. There is nothing weak about looking out for others."
"We should soundly reject language coming out of the mouths of any of our leaders that feeds a climate of fear and hatred or normalizes racist sentiments."
"One of the things I do worry about sometimes among progressives in the United States, maybe it's true here as well, is a certain kind of rigidity where we say, ah, I'm sorry, this is how it's going to..."