Robert Bourassa quotes
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“There was no censorship of the press: in general, the War Measures Act could have been made even more radical.”
-- Robert Bourassa -
“A diplomat had been kidnapped, a cabinet minister had been kidnapped, they were under threats of murder. The police forces were rather tired. After a whole week, we were unable to find those that had effected the kidnappings.”
-- Robert Bourassa -
“It is very difficult to know what may be in the back of the mind of public figures.”
-- Robert Bourassa -
“English Canada must clearly understand that, whatever is said or done, Québec is, today and forever, a distinct society, that is free and able to assume [the control of] its destiny and its development.”
-- Robert Bourassa -
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“There is nothing more foreign to a civilised and democratic system than preventive detention.”
-- Robert Bourassa -
“There was never in my mind a desire to give in on the subject of freeing the political prisoners.”
-- Robert Bourassa -
“I have always said that we did not expect a revolution in the streets.”
-- Robert Bourassa -
“We all have the means to be prosperous. We have to find the balance between our wealth and our needs”
-- Robert Bourassa -
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“If [domain seizure] isn't direct censorship, I don't know what is.”
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Source : A. Bartlett Giamatti (1981). “The University and the Public Interest”, Atheneum Books
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“I cannot be made into the commentator for the unspoken black masses.”
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“False history gets made all day, any day, the truth of the new is never on the news.”
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