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Joycelyn Elders Quotes
![What I can do is to go out and talk about the problems and solutions, make people aware of the scope of the problems, get them to become advocates for a turnaround, and convince them to develop an action plan, targeted to their community, to deal with young people. [They need to] find out what the kids want to do - dances, midnight-basketball leagues Picture Quote #1](https://img.picturequotes.com/2/826/825957/825957.webp "What I can do is to go out and talk about the problems and solutions, make people aware of the scope of the problems, get them to become advocates for a turnaround, and convince them to develop an action plan, targeted to their community, to deal with young people. [They need to] find out what the kids want to do - dances, midnight-basketball leagues Picture Quote #1")
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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 Picture Quote #1](https://img.picturequotes.com/3/1027/1026556/1026556.webp "[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 Picture Quote #1")
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They are boycotting common sense (Joycelyn Elders Quotes)
You can’t keep an ignorant population healthy (Joycelyn Elders Quotes)
What I can do is to go out and talk about the problems and solutions, make people aware of the scope of the problems, get them to become advocates for a turnaround, and convince them to develop an action plan, targeted to their community, to deal with young people. [They need to] find out what the kids want to do - dances, midnight-basketball leagues (Joycelyn Elders Quotes)
We must stop this love affair with the fetus (Joycelyn Elders Quotes)
But I’m saying we are loosing the people who are going to pay my social security. And that bothers me (Joycelyn Elders Quotes)
The evidence is overwhelming that marijuana can relieve certain types of pain, nausea, vomiting and other symptoms caused by such illnesses as multiple sclerosis, cancer and AIDS - or by the harsh drugs sometimes used to treat them. And it can do so with remarkable safety. Indeed, marijuana is less toxic than many of the drugs that physicians prescribe every day (Joycelyn Elders Quotes)
... black women have always found that in the social order of things we’re the least likely to be believed--by anyone (Joycelyn Elders Quotes)
Guns kill more teenagers than the other big killers - heart disease, cancer, and AIDS - combined (Joycelyn Elders Quotes)
You can’t educate people that are not healthy. But you certainly can’t keep them healthy if they’re not educated. (Joycelyn Elders Quotes)
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. (Joycelyn Elders Quotes)
[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. (Joycelyn Elders Quotes)
Marijuana is beneficial to many patients (Joycelyn Elders Quotes)
The best contraceptive in the world is a good education (Joycelyn Elders Quotes)
If you can’t control your reproduction, you can’t control your life (Joycelyn Elders Quotes)
Doctor, I have more education than most white people (Joycelyn Elders Quotes)
Handguns are a public health issue (Joycelyn Elders Quotes)
You can’t educate a child who isn’t healthy, and you can’t keep a child healthy who isn’t educated (Joycelyn Elders Quotes)
If men went through menopause, we’d know everything about it, but we still don’t even know if we should be taking hormones (Joycelyn Elders Quotes)
Health is more than absence of disease; it is about economics, education, environment, empowerment, and community. The health and well being of the people is critically dependent upon the health system that serves them. It must provide the best possible health with the least disparities and respond equally well to everyone (Joycelyn Elders Quotes)
We really need to get over this love affair with the fetus and start worrying about children (Joycelyn Elders Quotes)
It is often easier for our children to obtain a gun than it is to find a good school (Joycelyn Elders Quotes)
You can’t educate people that are not healthy. But you certainly can’t keep them healthy if they’re not educated (Joycelyn Elders Quotes)
Health is more than the absence of disease. Health is about jobs and employment, education, the environment, and all of those things that go into making us healthy (Joycelyn Elders Quotes)
I want to make it as hard as possible. Gun owners would have to be evaluated by how they scored on written and firing tests, and have to pass the tests in order to own a gun. And I would tax the guns, bullets and the license itself very heavily (Joycelyn Elders Quotes)
Condoms will break, but I can assure you that vows of abstinence will break more easily than condoms (Joycelyn Elders Quotes)
I want every child that’s born in the world to be planned and wanted (Joycelyn Elders Quotes)
We’ve tried ignorance for a thousand years. It’s time we try education (Joycelyn Elders Quotes)
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 (Joycelyn Elders Quotes)
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