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One could always do more, faster and cleverer, but democracy has its own rhythm.

Lech Walesa

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Lech Walesa
Age: 80
Born: 1943
Born: September 29
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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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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 fall of the Berlin Wall makes for nice pictures. But it all started in the shipyards.
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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 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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You should go to the polls, organize yourself. But once lawmakers are chosen, they must be respected.
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I can't imagine the right wing trying to unite without my participation.
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Let the veil of silence fall presently over what happened afterwards. Silence, too, can speak out.
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There is something of the warrior in me.
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Communism is a monopolistic system, economically and politically.
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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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When I recall my own path of life I cannot but speak of the violence, hatred and lies. A lesson drawn from such experiences, however, was that we can effectively oppose violence only if we ourselves do not resort to it.
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Capitalism is in crisis.
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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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The program of our movement stems from the fundamental moral laws and order.
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