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

Najat Vallaud-Belkacem

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

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" 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. "

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

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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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" 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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" There is no link between the terror attacks of Daesh and the dress of a woman on the beach. "

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

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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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" 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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" 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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" Inequality of women concerns both India and France, though it might have different manifestations in both the countries. "

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

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

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" Teachers alone can't educate young people. "

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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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" 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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" Equality in education is my number one battle. "

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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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" 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. "

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" We know that if religion is allowed into schools, pupils will sometimes begin to question the teaching they receive. "

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