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