Joycelyn Elders
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Quotations

Handguns are a public health issue.

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.

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

We must stop this love affair with the fetus.

Speech in Austin, Texas, January 21, 1994

I want every child that's born in the world to be planned and wanted.

If you can't control your reproduction, you can't control your life.

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

 
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