Elijah Cummings actually said...

"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 abo..."

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

"Asian Americans are often still seen as outsiders, as foreigners, as aliens."

"the American people demanded that their representatives in Washington fight for them and for what affects their lives on a day-to-day basis."