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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. "

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