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Lech Walesa
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: September 29
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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 can't imagine the right wing trying to unite without my participation.
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I think if I got a bicycle from my father, I should give a car to my son.
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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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There is something of the warrior in me.
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My health is very much improved.
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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 am happy that Poland is returning to the road of pluralism and democracy.
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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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I only fear God, and my wife - sometimes.
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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 want to light the lights of patriotism.
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There should be a left leg and a right leg. And I'll be in between
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I believed it would succeed. It was Polish Solidarity and its victory that put an end to the old era when what mattered were borders and rival blocs.
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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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Capitalism is in crisis.
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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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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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Words are plentiful deeds are precious.
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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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