Elijah Cummings: “I really do appreciate all the testimony that's been offered to this committee.”

On my mother's dying bed, 92 years old, former sharecropper, her last words were, 'Do not let them take our votes away from us.' She had fought and seen people harmed, beaten, trying to vote. Talk about inalienable rights. Voting is…

It is only recently in the last 50 years or so that many of these laws have changed.

We are better than where we are. We are better than this.

That year, Bayou La Batre did elect its first Asian-American city council member.