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The fall of the Berlin Wall makes for nice pictures. But it all started in the shipyards.
Lech Walesa
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Lech Walesa
Age: 80
Born: 1943
Born: September 29
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In many parts of the world the people are searching for a solution which would link the two basic values: peace and justice. The two are like bread and salt for mankind.
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I belong to a nation which over the past centuries has experienced many hardships and reverses. The world reacted with silence or with mere sympathy when Polish frontiers were crossed by invading armies and the sovereign state had to succumb to brutal force.
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I realize that the strivings of the Polish people gave rise, and still do so, to the feelings of understanding and solidarity all over the world.
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The program of our movement stems from the fundamental moral laws and order.
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My most ardent desire is that my country will recapture its historic opportunity for a peaceful evolution and that Poland will prove to the world that even the most complex situations can be solved by a dialogue and not by force.
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I allowed myself to be taken in by the intellectuals. I believed too much in the Polish intellectuals and followed their advice.
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I am overjoyed that I do not need a heart transplant at this time.
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My youth passed at the time of the country's reconstruction from the ruins and ashes of the war in which my nation never bowed to the enemy paying the highest price in the struggle.
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What until then seemed impossible to achieve has become a fact of life. We have won the right to association in trade unions independent from the authorities, founded and shaped by the working people themselves.
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I'm lazy. But it's the lazy people who invented the wheel and the bicycle because they didn't like walking or carrying things.
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When I was fighting communism, there was rapid development of satellite television and cell phones, and communism, to survive, would have to block all these information devices.
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I think if I got a bicycle from my father, I should give a car to my son.
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This is the moment of your defeat you have just put in the last nails in the coffin of communism.
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The politicians always told us that the Cold War stand-off could only change by way of nuclear war. None of them believed that such systemic change was possible.
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If there were fish in the lake, fishing would make no sense.
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Deep faith eliminates fear.
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One could always do more, faster and cleverer, but democracy has its own rhythm.
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In myself I am nothing. It all comes from God and the Virgin Mary.
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