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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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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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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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Let the veil of silence fall presently over what happened afterwards. Silence, too, can speak out.
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Capitalism is in crisis.
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You have riches and freedom here but I feel no sense of faith or direction. You have so many computers, why don't you use them in the search for love?
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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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This is the moment of your defeat you have just put in the last nails in the coffin of communism.
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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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Words are plentiful deeds are precious.
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The politicians always told us that the Cold War stand-off could only change by way of nuclear war. None of them believed that such systemic change was possible.
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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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Communists are great capitalists, so there is no threat anymore.
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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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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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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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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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