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Doctor, I have more education than most white people.

Joycelyn Elders

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Joycelyn Elders
Age: 91
Born: 1933
Born: August 13
Former Surgeon General Of The United States
Pediatrician
Physician
Politician
Scientist
Minnie Joycelyn Elders
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[On masturbation:] I think that it is part of human sexuality, and perhaps it should be taught.
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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, I'd never seen a black clerk in a clothing store.
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... black women have always found that in the social order of things we're the least likely to be believed--by anyone.
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It is often easier for our children to obtain a gun than it is to find a good school.
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Guns kill more teenagers than the other big killers - heart disease, cancer, and AIDS - combined.
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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 night and buy them herself.
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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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You can't educate people that are not healthy. But you certainly can't keep them healthy if they're not educated.
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But I'm saying we are loosing the people who are going to pay my social security. And that bothers me.
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Handguns are a public health issue.
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You can't educate a child who isn't healthy, and you can't keep a child healthy who isn't educated.
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I always say my God will take care of me. If it's my time I'll go, and if it's not I won't. I feel that He really has a lot of important things for me to do. And He's going to make sure that I'm here to do them.
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I feel that we can't educate children who are not healthy, and we can't keep them healthy if they're not educated. There has to be a marriage between health and education. You can't learn if your mind is full of unhealthy images from daily life and confusion about right and wrong.
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The best contraceptive in the world is a good education.
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Masturbation never got anybody pregnant, does not make anybody go crazy, and what we're about is preventing HIV in our bright young people.
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Marijuana is beneficial to many patients
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If you say children wouldn't know anything about masturbation on their own, you've never changed a little boy's diaper.
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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 have more education than most white people.
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You can't keep an ignorant population healthy.
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We know that there are several predisposing factors to gun violence: poverty, lack of education, lack of good parenting, lack of jobs, living in an environment where violence is seen every day, all the time. And children being born to children are likely to have all of these predisposing factors.
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