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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: 81
Born: 1943
Born: September 29
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I want to light the lights of patriotism.
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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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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 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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The fall of the Berlin Wall makes for nice pictures. But it all started in the shipyards.
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I am overjoyed that I do not need a heart transplant at this time.
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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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Let the veil of silence fall presently over what happened afterwards. Silence, too, can speak out.
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I only fear God, and my wife - sometimes.
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The program of our movement stems from the fundamental moral laws and order.
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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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This is the moment of your defeat you have just put in the last nails in the coffin of communism.
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President Lech Kaczynski is not at all active in Poland and his image abroad leaves a lot to be desired.
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Communists are great capitalists, so there is no threat anymore.
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There is something of the warrior in me.
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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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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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Communism is a monopolistic system, economically and politically.
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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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