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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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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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The best contraceptive in the world is a good education.
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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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You can't keep an ignorant population healthy.
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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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Handguns are a public health issue.
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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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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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[On masturbation:] I think that it is part of human sexuality, and perhaps it should be taught.
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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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Guns kill more teenagers than the other big killers - heart disease, cancer, and AIDS - combined.
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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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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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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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Doctor, I have more education than most white people.
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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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If I could be the condom queen and get every young person who engaged in sex to use a condom in the United States, I would weara crown on my head with a condom on it! I would!
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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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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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