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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: 81
Born: 1943
Born: September 29
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My country is in the grips of a major economic crisis. This is causing dramatic consequences for the very existence of Polish families. A permanent economic crisis in Poland may also have serious repercussions for Europe. Thus, Poland ought to be helped and deserves help.
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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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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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Let the veil of silence fall presently over what happened afterwards. Silence, too, can speak out.
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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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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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I only fear God, and my wife - sometimes.
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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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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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Words are plentiful deeds are precious.
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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 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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There should be a left leg and a right leg. And I'll be in between
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The program of our movement stems from the fundamental moral laws and order.
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Now is the era of intellect, information and the Internet.
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There is something of the warrior in me.
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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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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 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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Capitalism is in crisis.
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