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Take assertiveness training, get paid what you're worth, join a consciousness raising group. -- Barbara Seaman
What Women's Lib might achieve if their 'consciousness raising' - or in plain English, brainwashing- campaign succeeds is a society whose members have identical roles but are perpetually at war with themselves; a society of males made neurotic by suppressed masculinity, of females made miserable by having masculine roles thrust upon them that contradict their feminine impulses. -- Arianna Huffington
The feminists taught us about consciousness-raising. -- Richard Dawkins
Words are not trivial. They matter because they raise consciousness. -- Richard Dawkins
Poetry is the lifeblood of rebellion, revolution, and the raising of consciousness. -- Alice Walker
A triumph of consciousness-raising has been the homosexual hijacking of the word 'gay.' -- Richard Dawkins
My hope is that I can somehow raise the level of consciousness about world events. -- Lisa Ling
I do think the attempt to raise consciousness has succeeded. People are very aware of gender concerns now. -- Clifford Geertz
You must rouse into people's consciousness their own prudence and strength, if you want to raise their character. -- Luc de Clapiers
We have to raise the consciousness; the only way poets can change the world is to raise the consciousness of the general populace. -- Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Malcolm X raised my consciousness about myself and my people and other people more than any person I know. I knew him before he became Malcolm X. -- Lena Horne
I like to be able to raise people's consciousness, yes. And to remind that those of us involved in the receiving end of the oppression, we have a duty. -- Wes Studi
An image of the Earth, its landscapes, directly affects people. The beauty of the Earth creates enormous emotion, and through that emotion, you can transmit knowledge and raise consciousness. -- Yann Arthus-Bertrand
Well, you know, I was raised by a 1970s feminist. My mom had a consciousness-raising group. I used to sit at the top of the stairs and listen to them. -- Ayelet Waldman
The artist's role is to raise the consciousness of the people. To make them understand life, the world and themselves more completely. That's how I see it. Otherwise, I don't know why you do it. -- Amiri Baraka
The institutionalization of Black Studies, Feminist Studies, all of these things, led to a sense that the struggle was over for a lot of people and that one did not have to continue the personal consciousness-raising and changing of one's viewpoint. -- bell hooks
I like the company of men. I've never been welcome in those groups, but then I would no more go to a consciousness-raising group and talk about my intimate life with my husband than fly to the moon. I never understood all that. -- Nancy Friday
Consciously be sensitive to others, and try to elevate their level of consciousness. Don't do this by being preachy and telling them that they 'should' do this or that. Do it by raising your own level of energy and recognizing what's best in others. -- Srikumar Rao
On The Practice, I get to do what I love to do, and I am making a contribution that will, in the end, help raise social consciousness, dispel some of the myths about being large, and change the way that people view and interact with large people. -- Camryn Manheim
I'm not sure about prizes. I don't know how far you can seriously raise public consciousness about poetry. Having a 'National Poetry Day,' like a 'No Smoking Day,' is just shelving the problem. Things which should by rights be every day are not best served by these things. -- John Fuller
I was listening to a lot of hip hop, music like Public Enemy that was about raising consciousness, and I realised I could feed that directly into my work, using images in a way that was a bit like sampling - taking images from diverse places, exploring the contradictions without trying to hide the seams. -- Chris Ofili
The consciousness-raising, the advocacy, the passion, the youth of your movement is so critical. -- Hillary Clinton
Religion is consciousness-raising. It raises you higher than the problem, it gives you a bird's-eye view. -- Rajneesh
Without raising human consciousness, whatever we do in the world will only lead to more and more suffering. -- Jaggi Vasudev
I think what I'd really like to see would be a mass consciousness-raising movement so that we would all become vegetarian. -- Richard Dawkins
Nobody can teach you love. Love you have to find yourself, within your being, by raising your consciousness to higher levels. -- Rajneesh
Second Wave feminism started with consciousness-raising groups, which sounds "big" but it's really just house parties. Women getting together and saying, "You feel this way?! Me too!" Hanging out is consciousness-raising. -- Ani DiFranco
Consciousness-raising is at the very least supposed to bring about an intimacy, but what it seems instead to bring about are the trappings of intimacy, the illusion of intimacy, a semblance of intimacy. -- Nora Ephron

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