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The agitation in the North-West Territories would have been constitutional and would certainly be constitutional to-day, if, in my opinion, we had not been attacked.

— Louis Riel Address to Grand Jury (1885)

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Deeds are not accomplished in a few days, or in a few hours. A century is only a spoke in the wheel of everlasting time.

My people will sleep for one hundred years, but when they awake, it will be the artists who give them their spirit back.

The Defiant Imagination : Why Culture Matters (2004)

I have nothing but my heart and I have given it long ago to my country.

We must cherish our inheritance. We must preserve our nationality for the youth of our future. The story should be written down to pass on.

I do not wish for my satisfaction the name of prophet. Generally that title is accompanied with such a burden, that if there is satisfaction for your vanity there is a check to it.

Address to Grand Jury (1885)

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