Speech at the funeral of Freddie Gray (April 27, 2015) Cobb, Jelani (October 18, 2019), What Elijah Cummings Meant to Baltimore, work: New Yorker, place: New York, retrieved: October 20, 2019
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I’ve often said our children are the living messages we send to a future that we will never see. But now our children are sending us to a future that they will never see. There’s something wrong with this picture.

— Elijah Cummings

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "I’ve often said our children are the living messages we send to a future that we will never see. But now our children are sending us to a future that they will never see. There’s something wrong with this picture." in the context of "Speech at the funeral of Freddie Gray (April 27, 2015) Cobb, Jelani (October 18, 2019), What Elijah Cummings Meant to Baltimore, work: New Yorker, place: New York, retrieved: October 20, 2019" to mean that wisdom is timeless.

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Elijah Cummings

About Elijah Cummings

Elijah Cummings (18 January 1951 – 17 October 2019) was an American politician of the Democratic Party who served as the U.S. representative for Maryland's 7th congressional district from 1996 to 2019. He previously served in the Maryland House of Delegates.