Joycelyn Elders Quotes About Violence

Quotes about: Violence

• 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

  Jobs, Children, Gun

  Source: www.motherjones.com

• [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

  Gun, Buckets, Violence

  Source: www.motherjones.com

• I've pretty much always used my positions as a bully pulpit. What that means is strongly advocating for the things I feel are really important. Gun violence, to me, is the highest-priority public-health issue, and I have to make sure Congress is aware of it, the American people are aware of it, the president is aware of it, and that we all begin together to develop policies to exterminate the disease - the epidemic, really - of gun violence.

  Joycelyn Elders

  Mean, Gun, Epidemics

  "Surgeon General’s Warning". Interview with Ken Kelley, www.motherjones.com. January/February 1994.

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