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Now is the era of intellect, information and the Internet.

Lech Walesa

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Lech Walesa
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: September 29
Dissident
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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 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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I think if I got a bicycle from my father, I should give a car to my son.
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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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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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I am happy that Poland is returning to the road of pluralism and democracy.
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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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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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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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There is something of the warrior in me.
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Communism prevents organizations from developing by stopping the flow of information. The system is based on police and listening devices and triggers the worst characteristics in humans.
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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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I believe that any violation of privacy is nothing good.
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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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In myself I am nothing. It all comes from God and the Virgin Mary.
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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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When I was fighting communism, there was rapid development of satellite television and cell phones, and communism, to survive, would have to block all these information devices.
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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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Authority must be respected and chosen wisely.
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Words are plentiful deeds are precious.
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