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..

Independence must be accompanied by a social revolution.

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..

It is quite normal to be racist, but it is criminal to remain one..

Despite history, despite English, despite the noteworthies, and a little bit also despite ourselves, alas!, the Quebecois people have stayed French. ….

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