Kemi Badenoch Quotes

Kemi Badenoch

Profession : Politician

Birth : January 2, 1980

I was unlucky enough to grow up under a military dictatorship which had very Left-wing, socialist policies. It's not something I would wish on anyone.

Kemi Badenoch

This is one of the best countries in the world to be a black person.

Kemi Badenoch

The repetition of the victimhood narrative is really poisonous for young people because they hear it and believe it.

Kemi Badenoch

I look at South Africa and look around Europe and ask: are those places better to be black than the U.K.? I don't think so. It doesn't mean everything is perfect.

Kemi Badenoch

As a British woman, I now have the great honour of delivering that project for my constituents in the greatest Parliament on earth.

Kemi Badenoch

Everyone is so fascinated that I voted Leave. I find that interesting in itself. As an economic liberal, I want to see Britain trading more freely around the world.

Kemi Badenoch

I don't like the way the E.U. leaders are trying to punish us or the language of divorce. It's a business partnership, not a marriage. If something is not working well, you should be free to leave it.

Kemi Badenoch

I've been out of work myself and hated it. Any work, even on a minimum wage, is better than none.

Kemi Badenoch

You can't pick and choose the rules depending on the colour of someone's skin. That is what the racists do.

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On the history of black people in Britain, again, our history of race is not America's history of race.

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Most black British people who have come to our shores were not brought here in chains, but came voluntarily due to their connections to the U.K. and in search of a better life. I should know: I am one of them.

Kemi Badenoch

Our history is our own; it's not America's. Too often, those who campaign against racial inequality import wholesale a narrative and assumptions that have nothing to do with this country's history and have no place on these islands.

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We do not want to see teachers teaching their white pupils about white privilege and inherited racial guilt.

Kemi Badenoch

I had a very tough upbringing. We all had to do something called 'manual labour.' Mostly it meant getting up at 5 A.M. and cutting grass endlessly.

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If you let people think they can get away with a certain type of behaviour, people will take advantage of it.

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What we are against is the teaching of contested political ideas as if they are accepted facts. We don't do this with communism. We don't do this with socialism. We don't do this with capitalism.

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My children are mixed race. I want them to think: 'This is our country, our father's family has been here for thousands of years.'

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People have the same issues wherever they come from. Schools. Hospitals.

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I'm black but I'm also a woman, a Mum.

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The amount I have cost the NHS for maternity services is phenomenal.

Kemi Badenoch