72 Quotes by Joycelyn Elders

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

Marijuana is beneficial to many patients

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.

Judge Thomas was a man who had used the system to get where he wanted to be, but then felt that everyone else should pull themselves up by their own bootstraps.

Doctor, I have more education than most white people.

If you say children wouldn't know anything about masturbation on their own, you've never changed a little boy's diaper.

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.

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

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