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If we win the Welsh Heartland, then we win Wales; if we lose the Welsh Heartland, it is not Wales that we win.

— Owain Owain

Enillwn y Fro Gymraeg, ac fe enillir Cymru, ac oni enillir y Fro Gymraeg, nid Cymru a enillir.'

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Slyly, surely and intentionally, the Welsh psyche and culture have been tainted by "Britishness", which is by now a synonym for "Englishness".

Not one single action you voluntarily make - in body or soul - stays within itself. It lasts forever. A full-stop can't be placed at the end, for there is no end.

And teachers will be promoted from being the deliverers of facts to being being guides - guiding their peoples through rich and valued experiences offered by the computer.

It is only the right of conquest (derived from military success) which gives the Crown of England any illusion of sovereignty over Wales and the north of Ireland.

"Let government legislate so as to restore to the Welsh speaker that most elementary of human rights - the right to use one's own language in one's own country on all occasions; without this, there can be no true democracy."

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