[Singing] “This is the day the Lord has made; let us, rejoice and be glad in it. Because this is the day for the homegoing celebration of a great man, a moral leader and a friend. He could find common ground with anyone willing to seek it with him. And he liked to remind all of us that you can’t get so caught up in who you are fighting that you forget what you are fighting for.” “And as a master of the House, he was also the mentor of the House. Is anybody in here been mentored by Elijah Cummings? I think so.” “Dad, thank you for teaching me the dual power of my beauty and my brilliance. This might sound boastful, but ever since I was a little girl, my dad always told me I was beautiful. That may sound basic and like a no-brainer. But Dad wanted me to understand and appreciate my blackness and truly feel that my rich brown skin was just as beautiful as alabaster or any shade of the rainbow.” “Listening to Elijah’s daughter speak — that got me choked up. I’m sure those of you who have sons feel the same way. But there’s something about daughters and their father … [applause] … and I was thinking I’d want my daughters to know how much I love them, but I’d also want them to know that being a strong man includes being kind. That there’s nothing weak about kindness and compassion. There’s nothing weak about looking out for others. There’s nothing — there’s nothing weak about being honorable. You’re not a sucker to have integrity and to treat others with respect.” “And so they rolled his entire medical bed out of the room into the 14th floor. The rooftop of Johns Hopkins Hospital, where they land the helicopters for life-threatening situations. And we rolled out, and it was a glorious and it was a beautiful day with light everywhere. The sun was shining and it was just absolutely glorious. It was God’s day. And he looked out over the Inner Harbor, Harbor East. He looked towards South Baltimore, his beloved South Baltimore where he grew up in his early years. He looked toward the downtown and he looked toward the West Side, and he said, ‘Boy, have I come a long way.’”