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Lech Walesa
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: September 29
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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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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 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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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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I want to light the lights of patriotism.
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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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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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Capitalism is in crisis.
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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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It all came from there, Lech Walesa said, pointing to a TV when a reporter asked him why communism fell.
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If there were fish in the lake, fishing would make no sense.
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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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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 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 can't imagine the right wing trying to unite without my participation.
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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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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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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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We respect the dignity and the rights of every man and every nation. The path to a brighter future of the world leads through honest reconciliation of the conflicting interests and not through hatred and bloodshed. To follow that path means to enhance the moral power of the all-embracing idea of human solidarity.
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I am overjoyed that I do not need a heart transplant at this time.
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