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