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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.

Lech Walesa

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Lech Walesa
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: September 29
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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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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 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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Communism is a monopolistic system, economically and politically.
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My health is very much improved.
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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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If there were fish in the lake, fishing would make no sense.
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I am overjoyed that I do not need a heart transplant at this time.
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Authority must be respected and chosen wisely.
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Communists are great capitalists, so there is no threat anymore.
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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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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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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 believe that any violation of privacy is nothing good.
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I think if I got a bicycle from my father, I should give a car to my son.
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My country is in the grips of a major economic crisis. This is causing dramatic consequences for the very existence of Polish families. A permanent economic crisis in Poland may also have serious repercussions for Europe. Thus, Poland ought to be helped and deserves help.
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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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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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I can't imagine the right wing trying to unite without my participation.
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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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