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" Do we have to give Mr Sarkozy a history lesson? Yes, there are Gauls among our ancestors. But there are also Romans, Normans, Celts, Nicois, Corsicans, Arabs, Italians, Spanish. That's France. "
Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
France
History
Yes
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" If a big number of young pupils felt secularism was an attack on them, it was because the term had been misused and deformed in the public debate for years by the extreme-right and the right as an attack on Islam. The term had often been misused to point out how Muslims were different to others, and that is clearly problematic. "
Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
Islam
Right
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" Equality in education is my number one battle. "
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Education
Equality
" Inequality of women concerns both India and France, though it might have different manifestations in both the countries. "
Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
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Inequality
" As long as there is no proselytism... we must facilitate the partnership between parents and schools. "
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Must
Partnership
Parents
" You should be appeasing people as much as possible, not stigmatising them. The ban of the burkini puts into question people's individual freedoms. "
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Question
Much
People
" Preventing children from going to school, and preventing teachers from doing their jobs, seems to be not just undemocratic but intolerable. "
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Going
Children
Teachers
" People can't even imagine that it's possible to succeed anymore. "
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Imagine
Even
Possible
" I was very shy and reserved, so it was a bit contradictory to get into politics. "
Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
Very
Bit
Politics
" I'm aware that beyond my own need to find a personal balance, I should be sending a signal to society as women's minister about the importance of work-life balance. "
Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
Society
Need
Balance
" We have several million Muslims in France who are mostly moderates or non-practicing. If they feel that it is the only subject in public debate, they won't feel at home and will be tempted to withdraw to their communities. "
Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
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Feel
France
" How can a child adhere to school and the notion of secularism when they see their mother rejected from a school outing, stigmatized, left on the sidelines, just because she has a scarf on her head? "
Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
She
Child
Just Because
" School is at once a place of hope, but it's also a laboratory that exposes our differences. "
Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
School
Place
Once
" I'm like all parents who try to shelter their children. "
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Like
Who
Children
" We have to be careful not to have a form of militant secularism in our country, which is counter-productive for children we would like to see - adhere - to secularism. "
Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
See
Country
Like
" It is not just family that must transmit values, but school also. "
Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
Values
Also
Family
" Is it written that equality between men and women means one can change sex? Obviously not. "
Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
Sex
Change
Equality
" Teachers alone can't educate young people. "
Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
Young
People
Teachers
" Compared to some of our neighbours, it's not frowned upon to be a mother and work in France. "
Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
Work
France
Neighbours
" School was always a major player in my personal journey. It allowed me to open up to the world, and also social mobility. It allowed me to enrich myself, to read, learn and understand. "
Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
School
World
Journey
" It's more necessary than ever before to ensure that discernment and the development of a critical mind guide our take on the world and inform our relationship to the media and information. "
Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
World
Mind
Media
" I have a chart for success at school because it gave me a great deal of pleasure. It opened my mind to the world. I learned to read. "
Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
Mind
Great
Success
" Low income persons in need of social housing should be housed in more prosperous areas to avoid placing an extra burden on the poorer areas and to redress the balance in terms of housing, redressing the balance in terms of schooling. "
Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
Balance
Burden
Housing
" I decided to make a lifetime commitment against social injustices, against inequalities, and that is why I am profoundly from the Left. "
Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
Commitment
Am
Against
" We need everyone to be a feminist. Feminism is the fight for the equality of sexes, not for the domination of one sex over another. "
Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
Sex
Equality
Feminism
" When I look back at where I came from, at the school I attended... my classmates for the most part haven't had successful paths - many have had a difficult, chaotic path. "
Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
Look
Successful
School
" I molded myself against le Front National. Against hate speech, be it racist, sexist, xenophobic, or homophobic. Against the kind of injustice I faced during my own life. "
Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
Hate
Life
Speech
" By continuing to increase teacher recruitment and training - and ameliorating wages and working conditions - we will be able to shore up the weaknesses of the French education system. "
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Training
Education
Shore
" Some Muslim students experience secularism as an act of aggression. "
Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
Aggression
Act
Students
" We have to reappropriate the concept of laicite (secularism) so we can explain to our young pupils that whatever their faith, they belong to this idea, and they're not excluded. Secularism is not something against them; it protects them. "
Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
Belong
Against
Explain
" The fact of leaving one's country, one's family, one's roots, can be painful. My father had already found his place, but for us, for my mother, it was very difficult to get our bearings. "
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Family
Place
Father