"I don't want anybody to be confused that the issue of police and community is one part of a broader set of issues. Our children need to be properly educated. They need to be trained so that they can get jobs and be functional."

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Source : "Freddie Gray homicide reaction: Baltimore cheers, weeps" by John Blake, Michael Martinez, www.cnn.com. May 2, 2015.

Elijah Cummings

#Jobs Quotes #Children Quotes #Confused Quotes

“I'm not wearing any underwear!!!”
“Literature... is condemned (or privileged) to be forever the most rigorous and, consequently, the most reliable of terms in which man names and transforms himself.”
“There must always be some pretentiousness about literature, or else no one would take its pains or endure its disappointments.”

Source : Francis Scott Fitzgerald, Gertrude Stein, Edith Wharton, Thomas Stearns Eliot, Thomas Wolfe (1945). “The Crack-up”
“You have no idea how hard it is to grieve and fall madly in love at the same time.”
“If the American Revolution had produced nothing but the Declaration of Independence, it would have been worth while. . . . The beauty and cogency of the preamble, reaching back to remotest antiquity and forward so an indefinite future, have lifted the hearts of millions of men and will continue to do. . . . These words are more revolutionary than anything written by Robespierre, Marx, or Lenin, more explosive than the atom, a continual challenge to ourselves as well as an inspiration to the oppressed of all the world.”
“Barring that natural expression of villainy which we all have, the man looked honest enough.”
“I've always thought that we, as human beings, would be naive and arrogant to pretend that we're the only life form in the galaxy.”
“Marilyn Monroe was supposedly a size 16, which is probably why I love her style; it suits me better.”

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