Joycelyn Elders Quotes

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• Marijuana is beneficial to many patients
• Given a choice between hearing my daughter say "I'm pregnant" or "I used a condom", most mothers would get up in the middle of the…
• We really need to get over this love affair with the fetus and start worrying about children.
• I want to make it as hard as possible. Gun owners would have to be evaluated by how they scored on written and firing tests,…
• Once I had a professor say to me, "You know you have as much education as a lot of white people." I answered, "Doctor, I…
• The best contraceptive in the world is a good education.
• Health is more than the absence of disease. Health is about jobs and employment, education, the environment, and all of those things that go into…
• The evidence is overwhelming that marijuana can relieve certain types of pain, nausea, vomiting and other symptoms caused by such illnesses as multiple sclerosis, cancer…
• You can't educate people that are not healthy. But you certainly can't keep them healthy if they're not educated.
• Doctor, I have more education than most white people.
• You can't be what you don't see. I didn't think about being a doctor. I didn't even think about being a clerk in a store,…
• We've tried ignorance for a thousand years. It's time we try education.
• As long as I was in Washington I never met anybody that I thought was good enough, who knew enough, or who loved enough to…
• I want every child that's born in the world to be planned and wanted.
• Condoms will break, but I can assure you that vows of abstinence will break more easily than condoms.
• It is often easier for our children to obtain a gun than it is to find a good school.
• I've heard Eric Clapner, ... I think it was a wonderful thing that Eric Clapner the musician did...So I think that's the wonderful part about…
• You can't educate a child who isn't healthy, and you can't keep a child healthy who isn't educated.
• Health is more than absence of disease; it is about economics, education, environment, empowerment, and community. The health and well being of the people is…
• We know that more than seventy to eighty percent of women masturbate, and ninety percent of men masturbate, and the rest lie.

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