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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. "

Najat Vallaud-Belkacem

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

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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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" 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. "

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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 like all parents who try to shelter their children. "

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

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

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

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

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

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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. "

Najat Vallaud-Belkacem

" By continuing to increase teacher recruitment and training - and ameliorating wages and working conditions - we will be able to shore up the weaknesses of the French education system. "

Najat Vallaud-Belkacem

" 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

" We need everyone to be a feminist. Feminism is the fight for the equality of sexes, not for the domination of one sex over another. "

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

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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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" Reading changes your perspective and feeds your imagination. "

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

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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. "

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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