It seems to me that industrial South Wales has suffered a double wound – the sheer hardship of the years of unemployment; and added to this the loss of the language and all that it contained in the way of spiritual resources with which to meet that suffering. There is a humiliation in losing your language as there is in the indignity of the means test, and though it may seem a secondary kind of humiliation, it can leave a mark that lasts a long time.

— The Welsh extremist by Ned Thomas (Page 100)