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" 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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" 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

" As long as there is no proselytism... we must facilitate the partnership between parents and schools. "

Najat Vallaud-Belkacem

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

Najat Vallaud-Belkacem

" 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

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

Najat Vallaud-Belkacem

" Reading changes your perspective and feeds your imagination. "

Najat Vallaud-Belkacem

" 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. "

Najat Vallaud-Belkacem

" 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

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

Najat Vallaud-Belkacem

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

Najat Vallaud-Belkacem

" 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

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

Najat Vallaud-Belkacem

" 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

" Teachers alone can't educate young people. "

Najat Vallaud-Belkacem

" 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

" Preventing children from going to school, and preventing teachers from doing their jobs, seems to be not just undemocratic but intolerable. "

Najat Vallaud-Belkacem

" 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

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

Najat Vallaud-Belkacem

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

Najat Vallaud-Belkacem

" 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

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

Najat Vallaud-Belkacem

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

Najat Vallaud-Belkacem

" 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

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

Najat Vallaud-Belkacem

" 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

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

Najat Vallaud-Belkacem

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

Najat Vallaud-Belkacem

" 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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