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I want to light the lights of patriotism.

Lech Walesa

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Lech Walesa
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: September 29
Dissident
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Lech Walesa
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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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Let the veil of silence fall presently over what happened afterwards. Silence, too, can speak out.
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Lying at the root of the social agreements of 1980 are the courage, sense of responsibility, and the solidarity of the working people. Both sides have then recognized that an accord must be reached if bloodshed is to be prevented.
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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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Communism is a monopolistic system, economically and politically.
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I believe that any violation of privacy is nothing good.
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Words are plentiful deeds are precious.
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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 can't imagine the right wing trying to unite without my participation.
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There is something of the warrior in me.
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The program of our movement stems from the fundamental moral laws and order.
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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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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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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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