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I think if I got a bicycle from my father, I should give a car to my son.

Lech Walesa

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Lech Walesa
Age: 80
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 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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I can't imagine the right wing trying to unite without my participation.
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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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This is the moment of your defeat you have just put in the last nails in the coffin of communism.
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I belong to a nation which over the past centuries has experienced many hardships and reverses. The world reacted with silence or with mere sympathy when Polish frontiers were crossed by invading armies and the sovereign state had to succumb to brutal force.
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I only fear God, and my wife - sometimes.
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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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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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Now is the era of intellect, information and the Internet.
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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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The fall of the Berlin Wall makes for nice pictures. But it all started in the shipyards.
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One could always do more, faster and cleverer, but democracy has its own rhythm.
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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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There is something of the warrior in me.
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