Pierre Bourgault Quotes

The social revolution is seriously compromised if it comes through a political revolution.

Comrades, there is no true social revolution without the liberation of women

You can never have a revolution in order to establish a democracy. You must have a democracy in order to have a revolution.

My life has been a bit special, this is true. I participated in the liberation of my country. I was one of the organisers of its struggle for liberation. I likewise actively participated in all the struggles for liberation.

We will take up the ball of the Revolution where our fathers stopped it and roll it to the final consummation of freedom and independence for the masses.

The glorious spectacle of eighteen millions of people, struggling to burst their chains and be free.

… true emancipation begins neither at the polls nor in the courts. It begins in woman's soul. History tells us that every oppressed class gained true liberation from its masters through its own efforts.

Revolutions do not always establish freedom.

The workers will obtain the satisfaction of a number of material demands, and the moderates in the student movement and the teachers will put through important university reforms… There will be some progress of course, but nothing basic will have changed and we will continue to challenge the system as a whole… Besides, I don’t believe the revolution is possible overnight like that … these adjustments can only be imposed by revolutionary action.

We shall liberate our country.

This is not a jungle war, but a struggle for freedom on every front of human activity.

Who would be free themselves must strike the blow. Better even to die free than to live slaves.

Even revolution, which transforms a concrete situation of oppression by establishing the process of liberation, must confront this phenomenon. Many of the oppressed who directly or indirectly participate in revolution intend - conditioned by the myths of the old order - to make it their private revolution. The shadow of their former oppressor is still cast over them.

I do not want to be civilized. I want to be liberated.

I titled my book "Revolution." And that is exactly what it is. France is experiencing a time of transformation - in education, on the labor market and in the pensions system. We're talking about a cultural revolution.

You can Jail a Revolutionary but you can't jail the Revolution. You can run a freedom fighter around the country, but you can't run freedom fighting around the country. You can murder a liberator, but you can't murder liberation.

Let us remember that revolutions do not always establish freedom.

Revolutions are the periods of history when individuals count most.

When one makes a Revolution, one cannot mark time; one must always go forward - or go back. He who now talks about the 'freedom of the press' goes backward, and halts our headlong course towards Socialism.

The oppressed peoples can liberate themselves only through struggle. This is a simple and clear truth confirmed by history.

I salute all the nations of the Arab Spring and I salute the heroic people of Syria who are striving for freedom, democracy and reform.

Insurrection by means of guerrilla bands is the true method of warfare for all nations desirous of emancipating themselves from a foreign yoke. It is invincible, indestructible.

During my last voyage to America, I enjoyed the happiness of seeing that revolution completed, and, thinking of the one that would probably occur in France, I said in a speech to Congress, published everywhere except in the 'French Gazette,' 'May this revolution serve as a lesson to oppressors and as an example to the oppressed!'

A reform is a correction of abuses; a revolution is a transfer of power.

We gain freedom when we have paid the full price.