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Quotes About Awareness

I talk about race a lot. It's been my work ever since I came out of acting school. But it's true that in a way talking about race is a taboo. Because so many of our debates about race have to do not with race but with what we are willing to see, what we will not see and what we don't want to see.
~ Anna Deavere Smith
My vision is to make India into a 100% sanitary-pad-using country. Menstruation is no more a taboo.
~ Arunachalam Muruganantham
Menstruation is a natural phenomenon and it is neither dirty, nor a taboo.
~ Manushi Chhillar
The taboo regarding menstruation exists across the world, even among the educated.
~ Arunachalam Muruganantham
I don't like taboo subjects and I don't like elephants in the room. If there's an elephant in the room, I really want to absolutely examine it.
~ Frank Skinner
I want to again highlight the desperate need for us to pull together - the world over - to tackle knife crime and teach everyone how sacred a life is.
~ Jermain Defoe
I'm a British intern going in. I'm hoping that John will just kind of tackle it from who this person is and what she's about rather than trying to go in on her culture. We need to move a step forward than that.
~ Parminder Nagra
Very much like a disease, we have to tackle the cause of racism, not the symptoms.
~ John Barnes
We have to deconstruct the idea of racial superiority. We have had it for hundreds of years so it is not going to happen overnight but we have to tackle it in the right way.
~ John Barnes
To an extent I agree that the FA hasn't done that much to tackle the problem of racism, but it's hard to police racism for the FA. How do they police it? Unless someone makes people aware of what has happened within a stadium, the FA would never know that it is happening.
~ Shaun Wright-Phillips
I am not obliged to tackle racism wherever and whenever it occurs, nor am I qualified to do so.
~ Romesh Ranganathan
I don't know technique-wise, just I've always tackled the same. I've never even really thought about how I tackle or any of that.
~ Devin McCourty
It is important to tackle racial discrimination. But these matters must be handled sensitively.
~ Kemi Badenoch
Tackling childhood obesity is key.
~ Diane Abbott
You've got to be smart about tackling.
~ Ed Reed
Time to Talk is all about tackling taboos and getting the nation talking about mental health.
~ Luciana Berger
Tact is the discrimination of differences. It consists in conscious deviations.
~ Theodor W. Adorno
So, my tactic with conservation of apex predators is to get people excited and take them to where they live.
~ Steve Irwin
BDS has been used as a tactic to raise awareness for Palestinian people, including women and their children.
~ Linda Sarsour
I've known that about myself, that I've had two sides: one that's pretty tactical, down to earth, aware. There's also a really spacey side. But I realized they're kinda the same thing.
~ Kamasi Washington
Reading 'Animal Farm' set me free from the dictatorship in my head. I could see all the tactics used by the regime to control us - they were all in that book.
~ Park Yeon-mi
The guy who sits in front of the TV set with headphones on has lost the capacity to react to the tactile environment.
~ Peter Eisenman
I don't want technology to take me so far that I don't have to use my brain anymore. It's like GPS taking over and losing your internal compass. It's always got to be tactile, still organic.
~ Andrew Bird
I was on Instagram or something, and I checked my tagged photos, and I realized that suddenly they were all LGBT artwork. I was like, 'Oh, my God!' I had no idea. It was the first time I realized I was a figure for that community.
~ Alycia Debnam-Carey