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Lech Walesa
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: September 29
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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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I am happy that Poland is returning to the road of pluralism and democracy.
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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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I want to light the lights of patriotism.
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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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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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The politicians always told us that the Cold War stand-off could only change by way of nuclear war. None of them believed that such systemic change was possible.
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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 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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My youth passed at the time of the country's reconstruction from the ruins and ashes of the war in which my nation never bowed to the enemy paying the highest price in the struggle.
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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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Authority must be respected and chosen wisely.
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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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I believe that any violation of privacy is nothing good.
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Communism is a monopolistic system, economically and politically.
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My health is very much improved.
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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 can't imagine the right wing trying to unite without my participation.
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