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I can't imagine the right wing trying to unite without my participation.
Lech Walesa
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Lech Walesa
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: September 29
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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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One could always do more, faster and cleverer, but democracy has its own rhythm.
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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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This is the moment of your defeat you have just put in the last nails in the coffin of communism.
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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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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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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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There should be a left leg and a right leg. And I'll be in between
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The hope of the nation which throughout the nineteenth century had not for a moment reconciled itself with the loss of independence, and fighting for its own freedom, fought at the same time for the freedom of other nations.
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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 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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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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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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Now is the era of intellect, information and the Internet.
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I am overjoyed that I do not need a heart transplant at this time.
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This conviction brought me, in the summer of 1978, to the Free Trade Unions - formed by a group of courageous and dedicated people who came out in the defense of the workers' rights and dignity.
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If there were fish in the lake, fishing would make no sense.
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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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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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