Quotes by Joycelyn Elders

About Joycelyn Elders:

Minnie Joycelyn Elders is an American pediatrician and public health administrator. She was a vice admiral in the Public Health Service Commissioned Corps and the first African American appointed as Surgeon General of the United States. Elders is best known for her frank discussion of her views on controversial issues such as drug legalization and distributing contraception in schools. She was fired in December 1994 amidst controversy as a result of her views. She is currently a professor emerita of pediatrics at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences.
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We really need to get over this love affair with the fetus and start worrying about children.

Joycelyn Elders

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.

Joycelyn Elders

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.

Joycelyn Elders

Author Bio

  • NameJoycelyn Elders
  • DescriptionAmerican pediatrician, public health administrator, and former Surgeon General of the United States
  • BornAugust 13, 1933
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionPediatrician