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President Lech Kaczynski is not at all active in Poland and his image abroad leaves a lot to be desired.

Lech Walesa

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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 want to light the lights of patriotism.
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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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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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Deep faith eliminates fear.
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There is something of the warrior in me.
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Communism is a monopolistic system, economically and politically.
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The world needs leaders of vision instead of leaders on television.
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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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This is the moment of your defeat you have just put in the last nails in the coffin of communism.
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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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Let the veil of silence fall presently over what happened afterwards. Silence, too, can speak out.
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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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In myself I am nothing. It all comes from God and the Virgin Mary.
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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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I can't imagine the right wing trying to unite without my participation.
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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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Capitalism is in crisis.
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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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There should be a left leg and a right leg. And I'll be in between
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