Pierre Bourgault quotes:

If, as is believed by many Canadians, Canada can not exist without Quebec, then it simply does not deserve to exist. Si, comme le croient plusieurs Canadiens, le Canada ne peut exister sans le Québec, alors il ne mérite tout simplement pas d'exister.

Independence must be accompanied by a social revolution

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. Il est presque normal d'être raciste, mais il est criminel de le demeurer.

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.

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.