Trevor Phillips famous quotes

03-18-2025

Human rights are not worthy of the name if they do not protect the people we don't like as well as those we do.
-- Trevor Phillips

#Rights #Names #People
To me there's nothing different in principle with a Catholic adoption agency, or indeed Methodist adoption agency, saying the rules in our community are different and therefore the law shouldn't apply to us. Why not then say sharia can be applied to different parts of the country? It doesn't work.
-- Trevor Phillips

#Country #Agency #Law
The most likely victim of actual religious discrimination in British society is a Muslim, but the person who is most likely to feel slighted because of their religion is an evangelical Christian.
-- Trevor Phillips

#Christian #Religious #Discrimination
Prison service vans that travel 90 miles to take a prisoner 90 yards; paedophiles free to leer at children in the very parks where they have committed horrific crimes.
-- Trevor Phillips

#Children #Parks #Yards
Once you start to provide public services that have to be run under public rules, for example child protection, then it has to go with public law. Institutions have to make a decision whether they want to do that or they don't want to do that.
-- Trevor Phillips

#Running #Children #Law
It's perfectly fair that you can't be a Roman Catholic priest unless you're a man. It seems right that the reach of anti-discriminatory law should stop at the door of the church or mosque.
-- Trevor Phillips

#Men #Doors #Law
I think there's an awful lot of noise about the Church being persecuted but there is a more real issue that the conventional churches face - that the people who are really driving their revival and success believe in an old-time religion which, in my view, is incompatible with a modern, multi-ethnic, multicultural society.
-- Trevor Phillips

#Real #Believe #Thinking
You can't say 'because we decide we're different then we need a different set of laws.
-- Trevor Phillips

#Law #Different #Needs
There's no question that there is more anti-religion noise in Britain.
-- Trevor Phillips

#Noise #Britain
My brother and I have too good a relationship to spoil it by working together.
-- Trevor Phillips

#Brother #Together #Spoil
I don't want to have people brought in simply because they are black or Asian.
-- Trevor Phillips

#People #Black #Asian
I ask questions, and a large part of my life has been spent asking questions of Ken Livingstone.
-- Trevor Phillips

#Asking Questions #Asking
Across the board, people are looking at the problem, but simply not changing anywhere near fast enough.
-- Trevor Phillips

#People #Boards #Problem
We need more male black teachers, tempting them with extra cash if necessary.
-- Trevor Phillips

#Teacher #Black #Needs
There's no secret about my ambition, I do not want to go into the House of Commons. My only real political interest is in London and if one day I'm in a position to run for mayor, then terrific.
-- Trevor Phillips

#Running #Real #Ambition
Most liberal-minded folk would like to think that since they are not hostile to people of a different race, racism is a disease of the uneducated, unenlightened and socially backward - football hooligans, British National Party supporters, policemen. You could call this the Bad Guy Theory. But the Bad Guy Theory does not explain why Indian-heritage children do nearly twice as well as Pakistani-heritage children at GCSE.
-- Trevor Phillips

#Football #Children #Party

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