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
What I can do is to go out and talk about the problems and solutions, make people aware of the scope of… — 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
If I could be the "condom queen" and get every young person who engaged in sex to use a condom in the… — 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
Masturbation never got anybody pregnant, does not make anybody go crazy, and what we're about is preventing HIV in our bright young… — 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
![“What I can do is to go out and talk about the problems and solutions, make people aware of the scope of the problems, get them to become advocates for a turnaround, and convince them to develop an action plan, targeted to their community, to deal with young people. [They need to] find out what the…” quote by Joycelyn Elders](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/386/joycelyn-elders-12167_action_what-i-can-do-is-to-go-out-and-talk-abou_1600084.jpg)
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