Elijah Cummings actually said...

"The most painful thing about it... is that they go through all of that, denied opportunity over and over again, and then they die."

"I think that if we are going to have a color-blind society, then we should have a color-blind society that goes to the point of eliminating this wall that blocks so many people from opportunity."

"They have done it over. And over and over and over again they see and feel the wind from a door being shut in their faces over and over and over again."

"I just think that this is a prime opportunity to get some of these things done right now."