Words matter. These are the best Kemi Badenoch Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Black lives do matter, of course they do, but we know that the Black Lives Matter movement – capital B, L, M – is political.
I am one of those people for whom pregnancy is an ordeal.
As the minister for faith as well as equalities, I’m proud to champion our work with faith leaders to help overcome vaccine hesitancy in mothers from religious and ethnic groups.
There are few countries in the world where you can go in one generation from immigrant to parliamentarian.
The right has to be more than the Tory party.
Too often black people are confronted with an assumption that there is only one way to be black, and that anyone who doesn’t conform is a ‘coconut’ an ‘Uncle Tom’ (or as Ms Dent Coad stated in her blog, a ‘token’). It implies we are too stupid to understand what it means to be conservative, or are race traitors.
People have the same issues wherever they come from. Schools. Hospitals.
We should honour the memory of past members like Airey Neave by treating each other and the institution of parliament itself with more respect. Nobody should denigrate it for doing exactly what it should be doing – debating and arguing the most difficult and complex decisions of our time.
We want a broad pipeline of people coming through, we want to have a huge variety of people who are applying to become Conservative MPs.
I’m not just equality minister I am also a Treasury secretary.
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.
Being different means you are noticed more, and sometimes that has been helpful.
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.
My favorite artist has not changed since I was five years old: Michael Jackson.
Lumping everyone together in a group as a proxy for ‘not white’ is not how we deal with things from a health perspective.
Labour has lots of groups of people, whether it’s public sector workers, nurses and so on who will push their policies out for them. The right-wing equivalent, whether it’s businesses, the Church etc, don’t say anything. They all hide behind Conservative politicians.
People are scared to speak out against the status quo: their jobs and livelihoods, they believe, are at risk.
If you let people think they can get away with a certain type of behaviour, people will take advantage of it.
I am a black conservative.
In the papers, they were talking about how ‘Friends’ is now sort of really homophobic, transphobic and so on. That, for me, is a very, very – it’s actually a puritanical position, which I think of as conservative.
I’ve been out of work myself and hated it. Any work, even on a minimum wage, is better than none.
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.
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.
Labour doesn’t have a monopoly on non-white people.
In order to defend freedom of expression, we each need to exercise personal responsibility. We need to make good choices about how we behave, based not on fear of strong legal repercussion or fear of the mob, but out of respect for ourselves and others.
The amount I have cost the NHS for maternity services is phenomenal.
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.
We’re quick to complain about racism, sexism, homophobia, but it’s not as bad as people make out. If we’re going to be more cohesive, we have to be more relaxed about petty incidents and not find insult where none exists.
The repetition of the victimhood narrative is really poisonous for young people because they hear it and believe it.
Everyone had their own machete. Because that’s how you cut grass in Africa. There were no lawn mowers. We had to tend our own patches. I still feel as if I have got the blisters.
It is important to tackle racial discrimination. But these matters must be handled sensitively.
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.
We do not want to see teachers teaching their white pupils about white privilege and inherited racial guilt.
Both my parents are Nigerian, but my mother worked internationally so when she travelled so did the kids.
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.
In war as in politics, Neave’s attitude was always to get on with it.
Don’t let Labour’s stereotypes and low expectations hold you back, and never let them treat you like a black sheep who will always follow them.
I’m black but I’m also a woman, a Mum.
As a British woman, I now have the great honour of delivering that project for my constituents in the greatest Parliament on earth.
Free speech is never out of the news.
