My biggest challenge is to educate the American people, to make access to health care available for all, and to make sure… — Joycelyn Elders Copy Share Image
I don't know how anybody can say that who looks at what's happening to our young people and what's happening to our… — Joycelyn Elders Copy Share Image
Certainly we have to find some kind of warning to put on guns for sale. And that's not too far-fetched. But what… — Joycelyn Elders Copy Share Image
We can begin to address the issue of guns by teaching our young people how to deal with situations in nonviolent ways.… — Joycelyn Elders Copy Share Image
I want to make it as hard as possible. Gun owners would have to be evaluated by how they scored on written… — Joycelyn Elders Copy Share Image
[We must] deal with all of the contributing factors to gun violence as a whole, because it's like a leaky bucket -… — Joycelyn Elders Copy Share Image
Guns are far too accessible and too readily available. There are over 200 million guns in our society - and that's just… — Joycelyn Elders Copy Share Image
Nobody with a criminal record would ever be allowed to buy a gun. All assault weapons would be banned, completely. And everybody… — Joycelyn Elders Copy Share Image
It is often easier for our children to obtain a gun than it is to find a good school. — Joycelyn Elders Copy Share Image
Guns kill more teenagers than the other big killers - heart disease, cancer, and AIDS - combined. — Joycelyn Elders Copy Share Image
Gun owners would have to be evaluated by how they scored on written and firing tests, and have to pass the tests… — Joycelyn Elders Copy Share Image
We know that there are several predisposing factors to gun violence: poverty, lack of education, lack of good parenting, lack of jobs,… — Joycelyn Elders Copy Share Image
Homicide, often involving guns, is a disease that is the leading cause of death for young black men, and the second-leading cause… — Joycelyn Elders Copy Share Image
I've pretty much always used my positions as a bully pulpit. What that means is strongly advocating for the things I feel… — Joycelyn Elders Copy Share Image
I support a total ban on handgun ownership for anyone under eighteen. Uzis should be absolutely banned from entering this country. Automatic… — Joycelyn Elders Copy Share Image
Once I had a professor say to me, "You know you have as much education as a lot of white people." I answered, "Doctor,… — Joycelyn Elders Copy Share Image
[On masturbation:] I think that it is part of human sexuality, and perhaps it should be taught. — Joycelyn Elders Copy Share Image
I think we should have a very, very heavy tax on handguns and on bullets. — Joycelyn Elders Copy Share Image
“We have a multiheaded dragon in our midst that for too long has been waging a domestic war on our young, our poor, our… — Joycelyn Elders Copy Share Image
... black women have always found that in the social order of things we're the least likely to be believed--by anyone. — Joycelyn Elders Copy Share Image
[We must] deal with all of the contributing factors to gun violence as a whole, because it's like a leaky bucket - if you've… — Joycelyn Elders Copy Share Image
You can't educate people that are not healthy. But you certainly can't keep them healthy if they're not educated. — Joycelyn Elders Copy Share Image
As long as I was in Washington I never met anybody that I thought was good enough, who knew enough, or who loved enough… — Joycelyn Elders Copy Share Image
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