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

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


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

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



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

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



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

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



Health is more than the absence of disease. Health is about jobs and employment, education, the environment, and all of those things that go into making us healthy.

Health is more than the absence of disease. Health is about jobs and employment, education, the environment, and all of those things that go into making us healthy.



I've heard Eric Clapner, ... I think it was a wonderful thing that Eric Clapner the musician did...So I think that's the wonderful part about it, but listen - I like Eric Clapner!

I've heard Eric Clapner, ... I think it was a wonderful thing that Eric Clapner the musician did...So I think that's the wonderful part about it, but listen - I like Eric Clapner!



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

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



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

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



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.

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.



If men went through menopause, we'd know everything about it, but we still don't even know if we should be taking hormones.

If men went through menopause, we'd know everything about it, but we still don't even know if we should be taking hormones.



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.

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.





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Vitarag’s [the enlightened one’s] 'water' (knowledge) will remove any kind of (karmic) 'stains'.



...my heart is a desolate field over which geese vee, the sky turns and the days lie fallow...

...my heart is a desolate field over which geese vee, the sky turns and the days lie fallow...



Painting is easy when you don't know how but very difficult when you do.

Painting is easy when you don't know how but very difficult when you do.



Have fun, live life, think big, love hard!

Have fun, live life, think big, love hard!



...there's no reason why scholarship can't be as seriously playful as bubble-blowing.

...there's no reason why scholarship can't be as seriously playful as bubble-blowing.



Let us be sure that those who come after will say of us in our time, that in our time we did everything that could be done. We finished the race; we kept them free; we kept the faith.

Let us be sure that those who come after will say of us in our time, that in our time we did everything that could be done. We finished the race; we kept them free; we kept the faith.



When it comes to how much attention something gets or how much attention it draws, I really kind of just try to expect nothing at this point. Whatever it turns into, it turns into.

When it comes to how much attention something gets or how much attention it draws, I really kind of just try to expect nothing at this point. Whatever it turns into, it turns into.



No hour of life is wasted that is spent in the saddle.

No hour of life is wasted that is spent in the saddle.




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