Quotes by Joycelyn Elders

Joycelyn Elders

… black women have always found that in the social order of things we’re the least likely to be believed–by anyone.

African American

Black

Order

… if you’re poor and ignorant, with a child, you’re a slave. Meaning that you’re never going to get out of it. These women are in bondage to a kind of slavery that the 13th Amendment just didn’t deal with. The old master provided food, clothing and health care to the slaves because he wanted them to get up and go to work in the morning. And so on welfare: you get food, clothing and shelter–you get survival, but you can’t really do anything else. You can’t control your life.

Children

Ignorant

Morning

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

Sexuality

Taught

Thinking

[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.

Buckets

Gun

Violence

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

Christian

Death Penalty

Doctors

As long as I was in Washington I never met anybody that I thought was good enough, who knew enough, or who loved enough to make sexual decisions for anybody else.

Decision

Good Enough

Long

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

Humorous

People

Stupid

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.

Gun

Hands

People

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

Abstinence

Condom

Vow

Doctor, I have more education than most white people.

Doctors

People

White

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Quotes by Joycelyn Elders

Joycelyn Elders

… black women have always found that in the social order of things we’re the least likely to be believed–by anyone.

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

[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.

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

As long as I was in Washington I never met anybody that I thought was good enough, who knew enough, or who loved enough to make sexual decisions for anybody else.

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

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.

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

Doctor, I have more education than most white people.

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