Catalan Independence Quotes

There's no alternative to Catalan independence.

If Madrid does not want an accord, and the majority of Catalans want an independent state, how can you avoid that?

Do you really think that the Catalans will end their struggle for their right of self-determination because of a legal decision?

Catalan politics emancipated from the Spanish politics on September 27, 2015. Since then, we've acted with a sovereign mentality, political sovereignty.

With Rajoy, there is a taboo topic, which is the aspiration of Catalonia to decide its future.

Catalan society is divided. There's one bloc - which isn't a majority - that backs pro-independence parties. But there's also a bloc that doesn't, which favours the current state, the statute of autonomy, and either increased decentralisation or even increased recentralisation.

The only problem is that there are a lot of people here in Catalonia who want to separate from Spain and a lot of people who don't want to. We are talking about 50-50, more or less, and that is why it is difficult.

We must have serious dialogue between Catalonia and the Spanish state on a referendum, on independence, and on how a separation from Spain - if that's what the Catalan people choose - would be accomplished.

I think that what the majority of Catalan society wants is a relationship between its distinct region and the rest of the country.

What I believe is this: Catalunya is not Spain, it is something else and you have to feel it.

Legend has it that when Franco's troops crushed Catalonia in 1939, relegating it for the next thirty-five years to abuse and neglect, one of his generals was asked what more he could possibly want now that he had Barcelona.

We're seeing a reaction - and people taking to the streets with pots and pans - in areas where the independence movement isn't supposed to exist. People have to choose between one model and another. Everyone in Catalonia has realised that not taking part means ratifying the politics of repression of the Spanish government.

I express Catalonia's wish of being in the E.U. We'll see what happens.

We are European citizens, as we are European citizens it means what we want to do is exactly like Scotland or Quebec. The difference is that the United Kingdom and Canada they are democratic countries. Spain today is not a democracy and this is the main problem.

I don't believe there will be anyone who will use violence or who will want to provoke violence that will tarnish the irreproachable image of the Catalan independence movement as pacifist.

No Catalan citizen and no Catalan company will leave the E.U. That is evident, and nobody can dispute it.