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My health is very much improved.

Lech Walesa

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Lech Walesa
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: September 29
Dissident
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The program of our movement stems from the fundamental moral laws and order.
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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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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 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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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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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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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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It all came from there, Lech Walesa said, pointing to a TV when a reporter asked him why communism fell.
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Words are plentiful deeds are precious.
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The world needs leaders of vision instead of leaders on television.
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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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The fall of the Berlin Wall makes for nice pictures. But it all started in the shipyards.
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Deep faith eliminates fear.
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Now is the era of intellect, information and the Internet.
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Capitalism is in crisis.
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In myself I am nothing. It all comes from God and the Virgin Mary.
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I am happy that Poland is returning to the road of pluralism and democracy.
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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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President Lech Kaczynski is not at all active in Poland and his image abroad leaves a lot to be desired.
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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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