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" 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
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" I decided to make a lifetime commitment against social injustices, against inequalities, and that is why I am profoundly from the Left. "
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Am
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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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Question
Much
People
" 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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France
History
Yes
" Reading changes your perspective and feeds your imagination. "
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Reading
Imagination
Your
" Is it written that equality between men and women means one can change sex? Obviously not. "
Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
Sex
Change
Equality
" 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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Society
Need
Balance
" 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. "
Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
Family
Place
Father
" 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. "
Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
Politics
Words
Say
" 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
" It's important to understand that one gender is not superior to the other. "
Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
Superior
Gender
Important
" We know that if religion is allowed into schools, pupils will sometimes begin to question the teaching they receive. "
Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
Know
Sometimes
Religion
" Inequality of women concerns both India and France, though it might have different manifestations in both the countries. "
Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
India
Different
Inequality
" 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
Others
" 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. "
Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
Training
Education
Shore
" People can't even imagine that it's possible to succeed anymore. "
Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
Imagine
Even
Possible
" I would like all French children to have unlimited opportunities opened up for them as French minister of education. "
Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
Education
Opportunities
Children
" The proliferation of bans fuels stereotypes and discriminates against a community. "
Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
Fuels
Community
Stereotypes
" Some Muslim students experience secularism as an act of aggression. "
Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
Aggression
Act
Students
" 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
" It is not just family that must transmit values, but school also. "
Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
Values
Also
Family
" My dream of society is a society where women are free and proud of their bodies. "
Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
Proud
Society
Women
" I was very shy and reserved, so it was a bit contradictory to get into politics. "
Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
Very
Bit
Politics
" In Europe, we will work towards having a common stance, while in France, we will strengthen our protection for asylum seekers whose lives are in danger because of their sexual orientation. "
Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
Danger
Work
Will
" 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
Against
Context
Me
" 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
" 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
Debate
Feel
France
" 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
" 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 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
" Preventing children from going to school, and preventing teachers from doing their jobs, seems to be not just undemocratic but intolerable. "
Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
Going
Children
Teachers