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In myself I am nothing. It all comes from God and the Virgin Mary.

Lech Walesa

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Lech Walesa
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: September 29
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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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I can't imagine the right wing trying to unite without my participation.
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Irrespective of todays judgment and the price we had to pay in this generation, we were able to close an epoch of divisions, different blocs and borders, opening the way for an era of globalization.
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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 only fear God, and my wife - sometimes.
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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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The program of our movement stems from the fundamental moral laws and order.
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I believe that any violation of privacy is nothing good.
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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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You should go to the polls, organize yourself. But once lawmakers are chosen, they must be respected.
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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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I am overjoyed that I do not need a heart transplant at this time.
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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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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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Authority must be respected and chosen wisely.
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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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I have always been and will be an enemy of communism, but I love all people.
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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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I am happy that Poland is returning to the road of pluralism and democracy.
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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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