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Lech Walesa
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: September 29
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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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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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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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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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It all came from there, Lech Walesa said, pointing to a TV when a reporter asked him why communism fell.
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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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Let the veil of silence fall presently over what happened afterwards. Silence, too, can speak out.
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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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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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I have always been and will be an enemy of communism, but I love all people.
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My health is very much improved.
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One could always do more, faster and cleverer, but democracy has its own rhythm.
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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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Communists are great capitalists, so there is no threat anymore.
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I want to light the lights of patriotism.
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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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You should go to the polls, organize yourself. But once lawmakers are chosen, they must be respected.
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Irrespective of todays judgment and the price we had to pay in this generation, we were able to close an epoch of divisions, different blocs and borders, opening the way for an era of globalization.
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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 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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