Pauline Marois Quotes

Quebec is the Western world's last colonial nation.

Quebec does not have Opinions, but only sentiments.

It is quite understandable that Puerto Ricans seek to preserve a cultural sense of identity without separating politically from U.S. national sovereignty.

I hope that one day the people of Quebec will one day be a part of the concert of nations. This is an internal debate. This will happen when Quebecers are ready.

Language is at the root of Quebec nationalism.

I keep wondering who defends Quebec identity: who defends sovereignty, the right of the people to express themselves freely.

This patriotic revolution where people want to find their own identity are not racist but want to fight for the preservation of their own people. Their own country, their own values. Their own money. Their own borders. This is such a positive thing.

While a people preserves its language; it preserves the marks of liberty.

The Serbian people certainly will never be an obstacle for the Montenegrins to have their own country.

I'm supportive of practical nationalism, like the kind we need in Canada to avoid being absorbed into a much larger country. The kind of nationalism I despise as destructive and infantile is really just tribalism writ large.

The Sami, as an indigenous people, as well as the Roma and other groups, have the right to maintain and develop their own language and culture.

Traitor? Traitor to what? My country is Quebec!

Where the French Canadian nation finds its freedom, that too will be its homeland.

English-speaking Canada, far from stifling Quebec, has acted...as a committed partner, a buffer, shielding its culture from the rest of an English-speaking continent that Quebecers perceive as a threatening force.

The greatest guarantee for the preservation of a person’s identity is language and faith, and all Armenians must carry these two values.

Cultural goods … are the source of the Nation's identity, continuity and development.

The greatest guarantee for the preservation of a person’s identity is language and faith, and all Armenians must carry these two values.

Loving the country, wanting to preserve the culture and identity - protecting the interests of the Americans in America, of the French in France, of the Israelis in Israel - seems to me perfectly legitimate.

Declaration of Independence, mankind was divided into nations by ethnicities and tribes.

That was the fear that there would be no identity anymore, for Canada. It was foolish, because there are so many examples of separatism, and nothing has disintegrated, unless they went to war.

Every people deserves to conserve its identity without being ideologically colonised.

Nations which don't find their national identities will be preyed upon by other nations.

U.S.A. is the speech of the people.

The difference between a nation and a nationality is clear, but it is not always observed. Likeness between members is the essence of nationality, but the members of a nation may be very different. A nation may be composed of many nationalities, as some of the most successful nations are.

For me, everything is still possible and I am as determined as ever. I believe first that the project of a people does not die. It is the project of freedom for a people, it is a project of sovereignty. And since the nation exists, it has the right to its own state. I will work to advance it in that direction.