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Judge Thomas was a man who had used the system to get where he wanted to be, but then felt that everyone else should pull themselves up by their own bootstraps.

Joycelyn Elders

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Joycelyn Elders
Age: 91
Born: 1933
Born: August 13
Former Surgeon General Of The United States
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We can begin to address the issue of guns by teaching our young people how to deal with situations in nonviolent ways. Someone said to me the other day, What our adolescents need is not so much health care, but healthy caring, and I agree. Parents and churches need to provide that. Curricula in our schools [need to] provide that.
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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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Doctor, I have more education than most white people.
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Marijuana is beneficial to many patients
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Handguns are a public health issue.
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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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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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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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My biggest challenge is to educate the American people, to make access to health care available for all, and to make sure that prevention plays a big part in health care. In the case of guns, prevention means we prevent homicides and devastating, expensive gun injuries by preventing those who shouldn't have guns from getting their hands on guns.
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[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 got a bucket with six holes shot through it, [and] you plug up five, you've still got a leaky bucket.
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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 make sexual decisions for anybody else.
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You can't keep an ignorant population healthy.
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Guns kill more teenagers than the other big killers - heart disease, cancer, and AIDS - combined.
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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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The best contraceptive in the world is a good education.
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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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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 a child who isn't healthy, and you can't keep a child healthy who isn't educated.
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If men went through menopause, we'd know everything about it, but we still don't even know if we should be taking hormones.
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Condoms will break, but I can assure you that vows of abstinence will break more easily than condoms.
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