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" 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
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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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" School is at once a place of hope, but it's also a laboratory that exposes our differences. "
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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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" 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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" 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. "
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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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" There is no link between the terror attacks of Daesh and the dress of a woman on the beach. "
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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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" 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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" 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. "
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" I was very shy and reserved, so it was a bit contradictory to get into politics. "
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Bit
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" Equality in education is my number one battle. "
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Education
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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. "
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" It is not just family that must transmit values, but school also. "
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" 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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" 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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" 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. "
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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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" It's important to understand that one gender is not superior to the other. "
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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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" Reading changes your perspective and feeds your imagination. "
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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. "
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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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" 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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" My dream of society is a society where women are free and proud of their bodies. "
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" The proliferation of bans fuels stereotypes and discriminates against a community. "
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" Is it written that equality between men and women means one can change sex? Obviously not. "
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