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

— Joycelyn Elders

On sex education
Penn & Teller: Bullshit!, "Abstinence" http://www.sho.com/site/video/player.do?video=/134/2006/abstinence&seriesid=134 [4.10], 5 June 2006

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American pediatrician, public health administrator, and for… 1933

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