Pierre Bourgault Quotes & Sayings

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. — Pierre Bourgault

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. — Pierre Bourgault

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 Bourgault

Independence must be accompanied by a social revolution — Pierre Bourgault