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

January 1, 1970

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United States federal government officialsWomen born in the 1930s20th-century African-American womenPhysicians from ArkansasPediatricians
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Penn & Teller: Bullshit!, "Abstinence" [4.10], 5 June 2006

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Penn & Teller: Bullshit!, "Abstinence" [4.10], 5 June 2006