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I want to light the lights of patriotism.

Lech Walesa

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Lech Walesa
Age: 80
Born: 1943
Born: September 29
Dissident
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Lech Walesa
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Communism prevents organizations from developing by stopping the flow of information. The system is based on police and listening devices and triggers the worst characteristics in humans.
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Deep faith eliminates fear.
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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 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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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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Now is the era of intellect, information and the Internet.
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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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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 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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One could always do more, faster and cleverer, but democracy has its own rhythm.
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I am overjoyed that I do not need a heart transplant at this time.
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I am happy that Poland is returning to the road of pluralism and democracy.
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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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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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The program of our movement stems from the fundamental moral laws and order.
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If there were fish in the lake, fishing would make no sense.
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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 have always been and will be an enemy of communism, but I love all people.
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