IN MEMORIAM: Schumer Remarks At Ceremony Honoring Congressman Elijah Cummings: Our Country Has Lost A Giant

NNPA NEWSWIRE — “His voice could shake mountains and stir the most cynical hearts, inspiring us all to be better. His authority came not from the office he held, nor from the timbre of his voice, nor its sometimes thundering boom. It came from the moral force of his life. A sharecroppers’ son, born and raised in Baltimore, Elijah Cummings never forgot where he came from and never lost sight of where he wanted his country to go.”