Joycelyn Elders

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

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

Doctor, I have more education than most white people.

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

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

You can't be what you don't see. I didn't think about being a doctor. I didn't even think about being a clerk in a store, I'd never seen a black clerk in a clothing store.

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

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.

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.