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I have always been and will be an enemy of communism, but I love all people.

Lech Walesa

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Lech Walesa
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: September 29
Dissident
Economist
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Lech Walesa
Wałęsa
Communism
Enemy
Always
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People

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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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I am happy that Poland is returning to the road of pluralism and democracy.
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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 sole and basic source of our strength is the solidarity of workers, peasants and the intelligentsia, the solidarity of the nation, the solidarity of people who seek to live in dignity, truth, and in harmony with their conscience.
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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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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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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 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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The fall of the Berlin Wall makes for nice pictures. But it all started in the shipyards.
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Deep faith eliminates fear.
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I want to light the lights of patriotism.
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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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You should go to the polls, organize yourself. But once lawmakers are chosen, they must be respected.
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Let the veil of silence fall presently over what happened afterwards. Silence, too, can speak out.
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Without a single shot we've managed to liberate the world of communism but now there is a need for a global solidarity.
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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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My health is very much improved.
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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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Words are plentiful deeds are precious.
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