Kemi Badenoch Quotes

Kemi Badenoch

Profession : Politician

Birth : January 2, 1980

Black lives do matter, of course they do, but we know that the Black Lives Matter movement - capital B, L, M - is political.

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Some schools have decided to openly support the anti-capitalist Black Lives Matter group - often fully aware that they have the statutory duty to be politically impartial.

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Both my parents are Nigerian, but my mother worked internationally so when she travelled so did the kids.

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I love the philosophy around the rule of law.

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My favorite artist has not changed since I was five years old: Michael Jackson.

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To be honest, I think Black History Month, it's become much bigger than it used to be because a lot of people are doing different things, different things with it. It's an American import, which hasn't always fitted exactly with what I would call British and Commonwealth history.

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We've got gay marriage, and civil partnerships, so what are transsexuals looking for?

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It's not just about being free to marry who you want, you now want to have men using women's bathrooms.

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I want people to realise we're not just stuffy aristocrats and Old Etonians. There are black Tories and lots of middle and working-class people of different skin colour who are Conservatives.

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Labour doesn't have a monopoly on non-white people.

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Growing up in Nigeria I saw real poverty - I experienced it, including living without electricity and doing my homework by candlelight, because the state electricity board could not provide power, and fetching water in heavy, rusty buckets from a bore-hole a mile away, because the nationalised water company could not get water out of the taps.

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We take every single allegation of Islamophobia seriously and where we do find party members or people who hold positions in local government doing things we suspend them, we investigate thoroughly.

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It's no good just believing in Brexit, if you can't actually deliver it.

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As a young black immigrant at an inner-city school, I saw how poverty of ambition left many from disadvantaged backgrounds on the scrap-heap.

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I was lucky. I got university degrees and had a successful tech and finance career. But many of my generation weren't.

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My experiences led me to the Conservative Party which embodied my belief in helping everyone reach their potential regardless of their background.

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Everyone in public life should judge ideas on the quality of their contents, not the identity of their proponents. Doing so is the only truly fair way of doing things.

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Identity politics may claim to defend the rights of individuals, but increasingly it has become a mechanism for undermining the freedom of people to hold and express an opposing view.

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With the rise of identity politics, the expression of naked prejudice against members of a supposedly privileged group has become mainstream.

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Before any decision is made on proposals for ending conversion therapy we must understand the problem, the range of options available and the impact they would have.

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