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There is something of the warrior in me.

Lech Walesa

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Lech Walesa
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: September 29
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I have always been and will be an enemy of communism, but I love all people.
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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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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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President Lech Kaczynski is not at all active in Poland and his image abroad leaves a lot to be desired.
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I am overjoyed that I do not need a heart transplant at this time.
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Democracy is made up of three elements. One is whether the laws support pluralistic principles. The second is whether the people take advantage of these laws. The third element is whether the peoples' wallets are thick enough to benefit from this democracy.
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Communists are great capitalists, so there is no threat anymore.
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I want to light the lights of patriotism.
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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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One could always do more, faster and cleverer, but democracy has its own rhythm.
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When I was fighting communism, there was rapid development of satellite television and cell phones, and communism, to survive, would have to block all these information devices.
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There should be a left leg and a right leg. And I'll be in between
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We respect the dignity and the rights of every man and every nation. The path to a brighter future of the world leads through honest reconciliation of the conflicting interests and not through hatred and bloodshed. To follow that path means to enhance the moral power of the all-embracing idea of human solidarity.
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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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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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Capitalism is in crisis.
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Deep faith eliminates fear.
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I think if I got a bicycle from my father, I should give a car to my son.
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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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