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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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Lech Walesa
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: September 29
Dissident
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Akron
Ohio
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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 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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I have always been and will be an enemy of communism, but I love all people.
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I want to light the lights of patriotism.
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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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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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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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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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The fall of the Berlin Wall makes for nice pictures. But it all started in the shipyards.
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In myself I am nothing. It all comes from God and the Virgin Mary.
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My health is very much improved.
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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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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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Communism is a monopolistic system, economically and politically.
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The program of our movement stems from the fundamental moral laws and order.
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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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One could always do more, faster and cleverer, but democracy has its own rhythm.
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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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Lying at the root of the social agreements of 1980 are the courage, sense of responsibility, and the solidarity of the working people. Both sides have then recognized that an accord must be reached if bloodshed is to be prevented.
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