Top 6 Quotes & Sayings by Pierre Bourgault

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a politician Pierre Bourgault.
Last updated on April 15, 2025.
Pierre Bourgault

Pierre Bourgault was a politician and essayist, as well as an actor and journalist, from Quebec, Canada. He is most famous as a public speaker who advocated sovereignty for Quebec from Canada.

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.
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
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.
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.
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