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" I'm like all parents who try to shelter their children. "

Najat Vallaud-Belkacem

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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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" Reading changes your perspective and feeds your imagination. "

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" When I started out, it was rare to see elected representatives with foreign roots. Often, I was relegated to my origins, put in the diversity box: 'You're the new face of diversity.' That annoyed me because I always felt French, and suddenly I was being made to feel I wan't as French as others. "

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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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