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Trevor Phillips

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Across the board, people are looking at the problem, but simply not changing anywhere near fast enough.


— Trevor Phillips


#anywhere #board #changing #enough #fast

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


#human rights #like #name #people #protect

I ask questions, and a large part of my life has been spent asking questions of Ken Livingstone.


— Trevor Phillips


#asking #asking questions #been #i #ken

I don't want to have people brought in simply because they are black or Asian.


— Trevor Phillips


#because #black #brought #i #people

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


#church #door #fair #law #man

My brother and I have too good a relationship to spoil it by working together.


— Trevor Phillips


#good #i #relationship #spoil #together

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


#committed #crimes #free #horrific #miles

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


#because #british #christian #discrimination #evangelical

There's no question that there is more anti-religion noise in Britain.


— Trevor Phillips


#more #noise #question

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


#ambition #commons #day #go #house






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Did you know about Trevor Phillips?

He was cleared of contempt of Parliament but was told his behaviour was "inappropriate and ill-advised". " Griffin has since hit back at Phillips by declaring him a "black racist" in an interview given to Channel 4.

Phillips' tenure as EHRC chair (which at his request became a part-time position in 2009) has at times been controversial. He became head of the Commission for Racial Equality in 2003 and on its abolition in 2006 was appointed full-time chair of its successor the EHRC (initially called the Commission for Equality and Human Rights) which had a broader remit of combating discrimination and promoting equality across other grounds (age disability gender race religion and belief sexual orientation and gender reassignment). For the former English professional footballer see Trevor Phillips (footballer)
Trevor Phillips OBE (born 31 December 1953 London) is a former chair of the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) and a former television executive and presenter.

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