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
Pierre BourgaultPast 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.
Pierre Bourgault