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

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Lech Walesa
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: September 29
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Lech Walesa
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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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The fall of the Berlin Wall makes for nice pictures. But it all started in the shipyards.
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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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Communists are great capitalists, so there is no threat anymore.
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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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There should be a left leg and a right leg. And I'll be in between
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Capitalism is in crisis.
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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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I want to light the lights of patriotism.
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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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If there were fish in the lake, fishing would make no sense.
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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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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 realize that the strivings of the Polish people gave rise, and still do so, to the feelings of understanding and solidarity all over the world.
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You have riches and freedom here but I feel no sense of faith or direction. You have so many computers, why don't you use them in the search for love?
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Let the veil of silence fall presently over what happened afterwards. Silence, too, can speak out.
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Now is the era of intellect, information and the Internet.
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Deep faith eliminates fear.
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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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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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