He points out that the word was "not in the national consciousness at the time.

To be both black and white, then, is to do nothing less than confound national consciousness.

In our national consciousness, America is a land of perpetual growth.

It was a story that instantly became part of the national consciousness.

The same national consciousness does not exist about pay equity.

But the real reason lay much deeper within the national consciousness.

Whether we like it or not, this growth of national consciousness is a political fact.

"This may be no problem among the intellectuals, but in the national consciousness it is not yet there."

"This will raise to the national consciousness some of what we have all been talking about."

The start of the 20th century saw a growing national consciousness.