Christian Quote by Joycelyn Elders

The best contraceptive in the world is a good education.

— Joycelyn Elders

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

Handguns are a public health issue.

— Joycelyn Elders

[On masturbation:] I think that it is part of human sexuality, and perhaps it should be taught.

— Joycelyn Elders

I think we should have a very, very heavy tax on handguns and on bullets.

— Joycelyn Elders

“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

... black women have always found that in the social order of things we're the least likely to be believed--by anyone.

— Joycelyn Elders

You can't keep an ignorant population healthy.

— Joycelyn Elders

Everybody's got to die from somethin'.

— Joycelyn Elders

[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

You can't educate people that are not healthy. But you certainly can't keep them healthy if they're not educated.

— Joycelyn Elders

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