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Opinion: Quotes of the week

"Black children are three laps behind in a four-lap race. We can't afford liberalism" - Ray Lewis, chief executive of Eastside Young Leaders' Academy, an east London charity that helps young people on the verge of exclusion

"The law assumes crime is a matter of free will. But you can't exercise free will without involving your brain and the brain can't function properly without an adequate nutrient supply" - Bernard Gesch, head of the crime charity Natural Justice, on the links between diet and criminal behaviour

"The numbers have increased substantially without forward planning to allow for it" - Professor Philip Steer, editor of the British Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, on figures showing a £150m increase in the cost to NHS maternity units of treating foreign-born mums-to-be.

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