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Lech Walesa

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Lech Walesa
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: September 29
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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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The world needs leaders of vision instead of leaders on television.
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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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Deep faith eliminates fear.
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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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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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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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Now is the era of intellect, information and the Internet.
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I have always been and will be an enemy of communism, but I love all people.
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Communists are great capitalists, so there is no threat anymore.
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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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The program of our movement stems from the fundamental moral laws and order.
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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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The sole and basic source of our strength is the solidarity of workers, peasants and the intelligentsia, the solidarity of the nation, the solidarity of people who seek to live in dignity, truth, and in harmony with their conscience.
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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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I am happy that Poland is returning to the road of pluralism and democracy.
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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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There should be a left leg and a right leg. And I'll be in between
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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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Words are plentiful deeds are precious.
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