Najat Vallaud-Belkacem Quotes

You cannot reform your society or institution without opening your mind.

If I could tell every Trump supporter two things, it would be to travel and read a history book. Look beyond yourselves; look at how petty the morals you uphold seem when you realize we are not the only ones.

Conversations between parents and kids are important - about race issues, about all kinds of things, about heritage.

When people talk about political correctness, the only element of any value is good manners.

Avoiding offense means that we don't accept each other as equals.

We've known for a long time, and I think culturally we've accepted, that diversity is an important thing in the work of knowledge.

I like the diversity that my children are exposed to every day.

It is, therefore, essential that we guard our own thinking and not be among those who cry out against prejudices applicable to themselves, while busy spawning intolerances for others.

Diversity ... like anything worth having ... requires effort. Effort to learn about and respect difference, to be compassionate with one another, to cherish our own identity ... and to accept unconditionally the same in all others.

It is the business of culture to make us able to consider with intelligent interest all real opinions, even those we do not and can not accept.

Somewhere in this we got into impugning people's character and motives if we didn't like their ideas. We gotta get back to just debating ideas.

I think it's important to not just speak to like-minded people.

Diversity is more than just a buzzword to me. It's my life.

What is political correctness, if not essentially redemptive speech? Soon liberalism had become a cultural identity that offered Americans a way to think of themselves as decent people. To be liberal was to be good.

It can be easy and tempting, especially during a presidential campaign, to listen only to opinions that mirror and fortify one's own. That's not ideal, because it eliminates learning and makes it impossible for people to understand what they dismiss as 'the other side.'

There is so much art can do to enlighten people, no matter what their views might be. If art can't go there or doesn't elevate the social consciousness in some way, then we are in peril.

I think a liberal arts education isn't necessarily about doing something with your degree; it's about becoming a critical thinker. And I think that critical thinking is so integral to being an actor.

You know, I'm not unwilling to listen to people just because where they're coming from. I'll listen to them, but I'm not going to be beholden to them.

Diversity and inclusion, which are the real grounds for creativity, must remain at the center of what we do.

Just because someone or something thinks differently than you do, it doesn't mean that it's not thinking.

We have never wrapped ourselves up in our own world thinking we are the only people who know what is doing. We listen to other things and see what we would like and what would suit us.

I think disparaging something you don't understand, while a very normal thing - I expect more from serious people.

I am always open to new ideas, but you can't always be right.

Let's cultivate an environment, not just in beauty pageants but in society in general, where we argue like we're right but listen like we're wrong.

Diversity is strength. Our cinema and our art forms need to diversify so that it tells all stories, all perspectives.