"My parents taught me about the importance of qualities like kindness, respect, and honesty, and I realize how central values like these have been to me throughout my life."

"The challenge that so many people have is not knowing how to take that first step of reaching out to another person for help."

"Having a child, particularly your first child, is such a life-changing moment. Nothing can really prepare you for that."

"Addiction is a hugely complex and destructive disease, and its impact can be simply devastating. All too often, lives and families can be shattered by it."

"A child's mental health is just as important as their physical health and deserves the same quality of support."

"If any of us caught a fever during pregnancy, we would seek advice and support from a doctor. Getting help with our mental health is no different - our children need us to look after ourselves and get the support we need."

"Well I think if you really go out with someone for quite a long time you do get to know each other very, very well, you go through the good times, you go through the bad times. You know both personally, but also within a relationship as well."

"Actually William wasn't there for quite a bit of the time initially, he wasn't there for Freshers Week, so it did take a bit of time for us to get to know each other but we did become very close friends from quite early."

"I think I know I've been working very hard for the family business, sometimes those days are long days and I think if I know I'm working hard and pulling my weight, both working and playing hard at the same time, I think everyone who I work with can see I am there pulling my weight."

"I think at the time I wasn't very happy about it [marriage], but actually it made me a stronger person, you find out things about yourself that maybe you hadn't realized. I think you can get quite consumed by a relationship when you are younger and I really valued that time for me as well, although I didn't think it at the time."

"When I was growing up, I was very lucky. My family was the most important thing to me. They provided me with somewhere safe to grow and learn, and I know I was fortunate not to have been confronted by serious adversity at a young age."

"We do not need to kill or destroy to win. We are a movement that builds and not destroys."

"However important the struggle is and however much misery and poverty and degradation exist, we know that it cannot be more important than one human life."

"Our union represents a breaking away...represents sharing a power, represent questioning, represents a new force...however long it takes, we are geared for a struggle."

"If you give yourself totally to the nonviolence struggle for peace and justice you also find that people give you their hearts and you will never go hungry and never be alone."

"I think one of the great, great problems...is confusing people to the point where they become immobile. In fact, the more things people can find out for themselves, the more vigor the organization is going to have."

"If you win non-violently, then you have a double victory, you have not only won your fight, but you remain free."

"We're going to pray a lot and picket a lot."

"The strike and the boycott, they have cost us much. What they have not paid us in wages, better working conditions, and new contracts, they have paid us in self-respect and human dignity."

"Non-violence has suffered its biggest defeat in the hands of people who most want to talk about it."

"We are organizers at heart. Most of us in the movement take great pride in being able to put things together."

"In non-violence the cause has to be just and clear as well as the means."

"Violence just hurts those who are already hurt...Instead of exposing the brutality of the oppressor, it justifies it."

"Organizing is an educational process. The best educational process in the union is the picket line and the boycott. You learn about life."

"We are certain God's will is that all men share in the good things this earth produces."

"You know, if people are not pacifists, it's not their fault. It's because society puts them in that spot. You've got to change it. You don't just change a man - you've got to change his environment as you do it."

"Look at the John Birch Society. Look at Hitler. The reactionaries are always better organizers."

"The only ones who make things change are fanatics. If you're not a fanatic around here, you can't cut it."

"If we are full of hatred, we can't really do our work. Hatred saps all that strength and energy we need to plan."

"Non-violence exacts a very high price from one who practices it. But once you are able to meet that demand then you can do most things."

"Non violence means people in action. People have to understand that with non-violence goes a hell of a lot of organization."

"We need, in a special way, to work twice as hard to help people understand that the animals are fellow creatures, that we must protect them and love them as we love ourselves."

"The basis for peace is respecting all creatures."

"I would not take one cup of coffee from a grower...There's not a good one. I hate them. A few presents, a little talk, then the noose. That's how capitalism works."

"If you're not frightened that you might fail, you'll never do the job. If you're frightened, you'll work like crazy."

"The non-violent technique does not depend for its success on the goodwill of the oppressor, but rather on the unfailing assistance of God."

"Years of misguided teaching have resulted in the destruction of the best in our society, in our cultures and in the environment."

"When a man or woman, young, or old, takes a place on the picket line for even a day or two, he will never be the same again."

"What is at stake is human dignity. If a man is not accorded respect he cannot respect himself and if he does not respect himself, he cannot demand it."

"The first principle of non-violent action is that of non-cooperation with everything humiliating."

"Do not romanticize the poor...We are all people, human beings subject to the same temptations and faults as all others. Our poverty damages our dignity."

"In the no-nonsense school of adversity, which we did not choose for ourselves, we are learning how to operate a labor union."

"A symbol is an important thing. That is why we chose an Aztec eagle. It gives pride...When people see it they know it means dignity."

"Nonviolence is really tough. You don't practice nonviolence at conferences; you practice it on picket-lines."

"Talk is cheap...It is the way we organize and use our lives everyday that tells what we believe in."

"Self dedication is a spiritual experience."

"It takes a lot of punishment to be able to do anything to change the social order."

"We are suffering. We have suffered. And we are not afraid to suffer in order to win our cause."

"When any person suffers for someone in greater need, that person is a human."

"When you sacrifice, you force others to sacrifice. It's an extremely powerful weapon."