PIERRE BOURGAULT

Independence must be accompanied by a social revolution

Not a single one, not a single one among us [French Canadians], in 200 years, has won a battle... and this is what it is to be colonized! When we have but martyrs! How can we have aspirations!? How can we have the will to fight!?

Despite history, despite English, despite the noteworthies, and a little bit also despite ourselves, alas!, the Quebecois people have stayed French. I had violently returned. This people had no need of directives to affirm its French pride in the face of the whole world

If, as is believed by many Canadians, Canada can not exist without Quebec, then it simply does not deserve to exist.

Past violence is detrimental to our present action, and it is not in the name of principles that we denounce it, but in the name of efficiency.

We no longer want to be a province that is unlike the others, we want to be a country [that will be] like the others.

It is quite normal to be racist, but it is criminal to remain one.

Not a single one, not a single one among us [French Canadians], in 200 years, has won a battle... and this is what it is to be colonized! When we have but martyrs! How can we have aspirations!? How can we have the will to fight!?

Past violence is detrimental to our present action, and it is not in the name of principles that we denounce it, but in the name of efficiency.

We no longer want to be a province that is unlike the others, we want to be a country [that will be] like the others.

Independence must be accompanied by a social revolution

If, as is believed by many Canadians, Canada can not exist without Quebec, then it simply does not deserve to exist.

Despite history, despite English, despite the noteworthies, and a little bit also despite ourselves, alas!, the Quebecois people have stayed French. I had violently returned. This people had no need of directives to affirm its French pride in the face of the whole world

It is quite normal to be racist, but it is criminal to remain one.