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Lech Walesa
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: September 29
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Democracy is made up of three elements. One is whether the laws support pluralistic principles. The second is whether the people take advantage of these laws. The third element is whether the peoples' wallets are thick enough to benefit from this democracy.
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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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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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One could always do more, faster and cleverer, but democracy has its own rhythm.
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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 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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If there were fish in the lake, fishing would make no sense.
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There should be a left leg and a right leg. And I'll be in between
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I am overjoyed that I do not need a heart transplant at this time.
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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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Deep faith eliminates fear.
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The program of our movement stems from the fundamental moral laws and order.
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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 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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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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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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It all came from there, Lech Walesa said, pointing to a TV when a reporter asked him why communism fell.
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I only fear God, and my wife - sometimes.
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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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