Joycelyn Elders Quotes - Page 2

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• Homicide, often involving guns, is a disease that is the leading cause of death for young black men, and the second-leading cause of death for all people aged fifteen to twenty-four. That makes it the leading health issue, particularly when guns are used in combination with drugs and alcohol. And the statistics show that is most often the case.

  Joycelyn Elders

  Gun, Men, Issues

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

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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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  Abstinence, Condom, Vow

  "Dr. Joycelyn Elders Is So Fucking Cool" by Kate Harding, June 03, 2007.

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• I think we should have a very, very heavy tax on handguns and on bullets.

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  Thinking, Should Have, Bullets

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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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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  Mother, Daughter, Witty

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• I always say my God will take care of me. If it's my time I'll go, and if it's not I won't. I feel that He really has a lot of important things for me to do. And He's going to make sure that I'm here to do them.

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  God, Important, Care

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

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  Cancer, Teenager, Heart

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• 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.

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  Basketball, Kids, People

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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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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  Stupid, Humorous, People

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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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  Men, Should, Hormones

  "Dr. Joycelyn Elders is so fucking cool" by Kate Harding, feministing.com. June 03, 2007.

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• 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

  Gun, Order, Want

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

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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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  Teaching, School, Caring

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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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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  Order, African American, Black

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• 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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• I support a total ban on handgun ownership for anyone under eighteen. Uzis should be absolutely banned from entering this country. Automatic weapons of any kind should not be for sale in America. For that matter, toy Uzis should not be available for kids, either. There would be a minimum seven-day waiting period between applying for a gun permit and obtaining a gun.

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  Country, Kids, Gun

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I don't know how anybody can say that who looks at what's happening to our young people and what's happening to our country, all because of guns. The NRA is putting themselves in a position where people will no longer trust them. They've been trusted in the past, but now their credibility is on the line.

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  Country, Gun, Past

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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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

  Men, Judging, Used

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• Certainly we have to find some kind of warning to put on guns for sale. And that's not too far-fetched. But what I really want to do is take the guns out of the hands of irresponsible people.

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  Gun, Hands, People

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Handguns are a public health issue.

  Joycelyn Elders

  Issues, Health Issues, Public Health

  "Elders makes assault on guns". USA Today, November 09, 1993.

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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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  Children, Boys, Littles

  "Dr. Joycelyn Elders is so fucking cool" by Kate Harding, feministing.com. June 03, 2007.

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• Guns are far too accessible and too readily available. There are over 200 million guns in our society - and that's just the legal ones, the ones we know about. Every ten seconds, another gun is produced. And every fourteen minutes, some person in America dies from gun-inflicted action.

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  Gun, America, Our Society

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Marijuana is beneficial to many patients

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  Marijuana, Patient, Beneficial

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• How do you get rid of the trash? It's out there in society, it's going on every day. You can educate children an awful lot easier than you can get rid of the trash.

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  Children, Awful, Easier

  "Straight Talk From a Straight Shooter Journeys: Joycelyn Elders Was Known for Her Outspokenness During Her Run". Los Angeles Times, July 03, 1997.

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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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  Gun, Buckets, Violence

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Who is the NRA anyway? They are usually middle-income people who only think of themselves, who want to have no government, really, except self-rule by themselves. I think that little cracks are starting to emerge in the NRA armor.

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  Thinking, Government, Self

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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

  Joycelyn Elders

  Christian, Doctors, Death Penalty

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