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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.
Lech Walesa
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Lech Walesa
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: September 29
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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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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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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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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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President Lech Kaczynski is not at all active in Poland and his image abroad leaves a lot to be desired.
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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 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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Authority must be respected and chosen wisely.
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Communism is a monopolistic system, economically and politically.
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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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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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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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Communists are great capitalists, so there is no threat anymore.
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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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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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