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You should go to the polls, organize yourself. But once lawmakers are chosen, they must be respected.

Lech Walesa

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Lech Walesa
Age: 80
Born: 1943
Born: September 29
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Communism is a monopolistic system, economically and politically.
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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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The fall of the Berlin Wall makes for nice pictures. But it all started in the shipyards.
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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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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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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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One could always do more, faster and cleverer, but democracy has its own rhythm.
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Capitalism is in crisis.
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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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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 only fear God, and my wife - sometimes.
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In myself I am nothing. It all comes from God and the Virgin Mary.
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My health is very much improved.
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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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The program of our movement stems from the fundamental moral laws and order.
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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 should be a left leg and a right leg. And I'll be in between
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If there were fish in the lake, fishing would make no sense.
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