WHITFIELD: This week, we say goodbye to a giant in the House of Representatives. Congressman Elijah Cummings, of Maryland, died last week at the age of 68. At his funeral yesterday in Baltimore, family, friends and colleagues, including former presidents, bid him a tearful farewell and honored the legacy that he leaves.</s>BARACK OBAMA, FORMER PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: Elijah Cummings came from good sort.</s>OBAMA: And in this sturdy frame, goodness took root.</s>BILL CLINTON, FORMER PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: We should hear him now in the quiet times at night and in the morning and when we need courage. When we get discouraged and we don't know if we can believe anymore. We should hear him.</s>OBAMA: Being a strong man includes being kind.</s>OBAMA: That there's nothing weak about kindness and compassion. There's nothing weak about looking out for others.</s>OBAMA: There's nothing weak about being honorable. You're not a sucker to have integrity --</s>OBAMA: -- and to treat others with respect.</s>CLINTON: No matter how hard he fought and how passionately he argued, he tried to treat everybody the way he wanted to be treated.</s>CLINTON: The way he thought America should be treated.</s>CLINTON: You know, you can't run a free society if you have to hate everybody you disagree with.</s>OBAMA: May God bless the memory of the very honorable, Elijah Cummings. And may God bless this city and this state and this nation that he loved.
Family, Friends & Colleagues Bid Farewell To Rep. Elijah Cummings.