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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
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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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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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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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The program of our movement stems from the fundamental moral laws and order.
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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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You should go to the polls, organize yourself. But once lawmakers are chosen, they must be respected.
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In myself I am nothing. It all comes from God and the Virgin Mary.
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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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If there were fish in the lake, fishing would make no sense.
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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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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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Words are plentiful deeds are precious.
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I believed it would succeed. It was Polish Solidarity and its victory that put an end to the old era when what mattered were borders and rival blocs.
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I can't imagine the right wing trying to unite without my participation.
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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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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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Let the veil of silence fall presently over what happened afterwards. Silence, too, can speak out.
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I realize that the strivings of the Polish people gave rise, and still do so, to the feelings of understanding and solidarity all over the world.
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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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