Joycelyn Elders Quotes

Joycelyn Elders Quotes & Sayings

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Condoms will break, but I can assure you that vows of abstinence will break more easily than condoms. — Joycelyn Elders

We really need to get over this love affair with the fetus and start worrying about children. — Joycelyn Elders

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

But I'm saying we are loosing the people who are going to pay my social security. And that bothers me. — Joycelyn Elders

You can't keep an ignorant population healthy. — Joycelyn Elders

[On masturbation:] I think that it is part of human sexuality, and perhaps it should be taught. — Joycelyn Elders

We know that more than seventy to eighty percent of women masturbate, and ninety percent of men masturbate, and the rest lie. — Joycelyn Elders

Guns kill more teenagers than the other big killers - heart disease, cancer, and AIDS - combined. — Joycelyn Elders

I'm against abstinence programs because I really consider "abstinence only" child abuse. — Joycelyn Elders

Masturbation never got anybody pregnant, does not make anybody go crazy, and what we're about is preventing HIV in our bright young people. — Joycelyn Elders

You can't educate people that are not healthy. But you certainly can't keep them healthy if they're not educated. — Joycelyn Elders

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

It is often easier for our children to obtain a gun than it is to find a good school. — Joycelyn Elders

If you can't control your reproduction, you can't control your life. — Joycelyn Elders

If you say children wouldn't know anything about masturbation on their own, you've never changed a little boy's diaper. — Joycelyn Elders

I think we should have a very, very heavy tax on handguns and on bullets. — Joycelyn Elders

When the surgeon general [Joycelyn Elders] said that drugs should be legalized, I saw somebody else who felt what I feel. But she got fired. — Snoop Dogg

Black women have always found that in the social order of things we're the least likely to be believed
by anyone. — Joycelyn Elders

Marijuana is beneficial to many patients — Joycelyn Elders

The best contraceptive in the world is a good education. — Joycelyn Elders

You can't educate a child who isn't healthy, and you can't keep a child healthy who isn't educated. — Joycelyn Elders

I want every child that's born in the world to be planned and wanted. — Joycelyn Elders

As a Christian, as an individual, as a doctor, I am absolutely opposed to the death penalty. — Joycelyn Elders

Handguns are a public health issue. — Joycelyn Elders