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I am overjoyed that I do not need a heart transplant at this time.

Lech Walesa

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Lech Walesa
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: September 29
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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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Communists are great capitalists, so there is no threat anymore.
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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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Let the veil of silence fall presently over what happened afterwards. Silence, too, can speak out.
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I want to light the lights of patriotism.
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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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You should go to the polls, organize yourself. But once lawmakers are chosen, they must be respected.
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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 belong to the generation of workers who, born in the villages and hamlets of rural Poland, had the opportunity to acquire education and find employment in industry, becoming in the course conscious of their rights and importance in society.
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The world needs leaders of vision instead of leaders on television.
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My health is very much improved.
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One could always do more, faster and cleverer, but democracy has its own rhythm.
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I am happy that Poland is returning to the road of pluralism and democracy.
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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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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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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 have always been and will be an enemy of communism, but I love all people.
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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 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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