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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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This is the moment of your defeat you have just put in the last nails in the coffin of communism.
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I only fear God, and my wife - sometimes.
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I have always been and will be an enemy of communism, but I love all people.
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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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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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The program of our movement stems from the fundamental moral laws and order.
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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'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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If there were fish in the lake, fishing would make no sense.
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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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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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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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Communists are great capitalists, so there is no threat anymore.
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There is something of the warrior in me.
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The world needs leaders of vision instead of leaders on television.
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Deep faith eliminates fear.
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