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" I feel totally French - I don't feel half-French because of my dual nationality. For me, dual nationality just means I don't deny my roots. "

Najat Vallaud-Belkacem

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" 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. "

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" It was the students who entered kindergarten in 2011 who are - and I am weighing my words carefully - the sacrificed generation. It is they who have paid a high price for the politics of yesterday - that is to say, the government of Mr. Fillon. "

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" Some Muslim students experience secularism as an act of aggression. "

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" On certain, delicate subjects, bringing in outsiders to talk about values is pertinent because pupils listen to them more attentively. "

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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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" It's important to understand that one gender is not superior to the other. "

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" Inequality of women concerns both India and France, though it might have different manifestations in both the countries. "

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" People can't even imagine that it's possible to succeed anymore. "

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" I would like all French children to have unlimited opportunities opened up for them as French minister of education. "

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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. "

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" The proliferation of bans fuels stereotypes and discriminates against a community. "

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" 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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" Is it written that equality between men and women means one can change sex? Obviously not. "

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" It is not just family that must transmit values, but school also. "

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" 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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" Our universities also have a lot of foreign students. Are we going to ban them access because in their culture there's a certain type of clothing? "

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" Reading changes your perspective and feeds your imagination. "

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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. "

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" We know that if religion is allowed into schools, pupils will sometimes begin to question the teaching they receive. "

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" 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. "

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" 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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" If you're asking me in a general context whether I'm for or against the burkini, the response is simple: I oppose the burkini. "

Najat Vallaud-Belkacem

" School is at once a place of hope, but it's also a laboratory that exposes our differences. "

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" Equality in education is my number one battle. "

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" Compared to some of our neighbours, it's not frowned upon to be a mother and work in France. "

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" My dream of society is a society where women are free and proud of their bodies. "

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" I was very shy and reserved, so it was a bit contradictory to get into politics. "

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" 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? "

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" The education ministry files suit every time there is a case of identity fraud. "

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