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Authority must be respected and chosen wisely.

Lech Walesa

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Lech Walesa
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: September 29
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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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I think if I got a bicycle from my father, I should give a car to my son.
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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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We respect the dignity and the rights of every man and every nation. The path to a brighter future of the world leads through honest reconciliation of the conflicting interests and not through hatred and bloodshed. To follow that path means to enhance the moral power of the all-embracing idea of human solidarity.
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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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Let the veil of silence fall presently over what happened afterwards. Silence, too, can speak out.
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I am happy that Poland is returning to the road of pluralism and democracy.
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The fall of the Berlin Wall makes for nice pictures. But it all started in the shipyards.
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There should be a left leg and a right leg. And I'll be in between
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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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It all came from there, Lech Walesa said, pointing to a TV when a reporter asked him why communism fell.
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I have always been and will be an enemy of communism, but I love all people.
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For now, capitalism is working to produce more money but does not see the people. This problem is getting worse across the world.
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I believe that any violation of privacy is nothing good.
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Communists are great capitalists, so there is no threat anymore.
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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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The program of our movement stems from the fundamental moral laws and order.
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The hope of the nation which throughout the nineteenth century had not for a moment reconciled itself with the loss of independence, and fighting for its own freedom, fought at the same time for the freedom of other nations.
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I only fear God, and my wife - sometimes.
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I want to light the lights of patriotism.
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