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I am contradicted at this moment on politics, and the smile that comes to my face is not an act of my will, so much it comes naturally, from the satisfaction that I prove that I experience seeing one of my difficulties disappearing.

— Louis Riel Address on sentencing (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)

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.

Address to Grand Jury (1885)

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.

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