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Doctor, I have more education than most white people.

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Doctors, White, People

M. Joycelyn Elders (1996). “Joycelyn Elders, M.D.: From Sharecropper's Daughter to Surgeon General of the United States of America”, William Morrow

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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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Born: August 13, 1933
Occupation: Former Surgeon General of the United States
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