"We've tried ignorance for a thousand years. It's……" — Joycelyn Elders

"We've tried ignorance for a thousand years. It's time we try education."

— Joycelyn Elders

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25 Quotes by Joycelyn Elders

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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…
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…
Once I had a professor say to me, "You know you have as much education as a lot of white…
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…
The evidence is overwhelming that marijuana can relieve certain types of pain, nausea, vomiting and other symptoms caused by such…
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…
As long as I was in Washington I never met anybody that I thought was good enough, who knew enough,…

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It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. — Aristotle
The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet. — Aristotle
Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them… — Aristotle
Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity. — Aristotle
All men by nature desire knowledge. — Aristotle
The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead. — Aristotle
Education is the best provision for old age. — Aristotle
You teach best what you most need to learn. — Richard Bach
The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work. — Richard Bach
Music - that's been my education. There's not a day that goes by that I take it for granted. — Billie Joe Armstrong
Don't limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as… — Mary Kay Ash
When bright young minds can't afford college, America pays the price. — Arthur Ashe

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