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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: 81
Born: 1943
Born: September 29
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There is something of the warrior in me.
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When I recall my own path of life I cannot but speak of the violence, hatred and lies. A lesson drawn from such experiences, however, was that we can effectively oppose violence only if we ourselves do not resort to it.
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Irrespective of todays judgment and the price we had to pay in this generation, we were able to close an epoch of divisions, different blocs and borders, opening the way for an era of globalization.
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I belong to the generation of workers who, born in the villages and hamlets of rural Poland, had the opportunity to acquire education and find employment in industry, becoming in the course conscious of their rights and importance in society.
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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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It is not difficult to censor foreign news. What is difficult today is to censor one's own thoughts, To sit by and see the blind man On the sightless horse, riding into the bottomless abyss.
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I want to light the lights of patriotism.
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President Lech Kaczynski is not at all active in Poland and his image abroad leaves a lot to be desired.
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Capitalism is in crisis.
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I only fear God, and my wife - sometimes.
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You have riches and freedom here but I feel no sense of faith or direction. You have so many computers, why don't you use them in the search for love?
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My health is very much improved.
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My country is in the grips of a major economic crisis. This is causing dramatic consequences for the very existence of Polish families. A permanent economic crisis in Poland may also have serious repercussions for Europe. Thus, Poland ought to be helped and deserves help.
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This conviction brought me, in the summer of 1978, to the Free Trade Unions - formed by a group of courageous and dedicated people who came out in the defense of the workers' rights and dignity.
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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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I have always been and will be an enemy of communism, but I love all people.
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There should be a left leg and a right leg. And I'll be in between
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It all came from there, Lech Walesa said, pointing to a TV when a reporter asked him why communism fell.
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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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Authority must be respected and chosen wisely.
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