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I am happy that Poland is returning to the road of pluralism and democracy.

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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Let the veil of silence fall presently over what happened afterwards. Silence, too, can speak out.
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Deep faith eliminates fear.
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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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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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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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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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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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If there were fish in the lake, fishing would make no sense.
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Without a single shot we've managed to liberate the world of communism but now there is a need for a global solidarity.
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