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Communists are great capitalists, so there is no threat anymore.

Lech Walesa

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Lech Walesa
Age: 80
Born: 1943
Born: September 29
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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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I'm lazy. But it's the lazy people who invented the wheel and the bicycle because they didn't like walking or carrying things.
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Deep faith eliminates fear.
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The program of our movement stems from the fundamental moral laws and order.
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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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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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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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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 fall of the Berlin Wall makes for nice pictures. But it all started in the shipyards.
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Authority must be respected and chosen wisely.
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I am overjoyed that I do not need a heart transplant at this time.
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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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I believe that any violation of privacy is nothing good.
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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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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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It is not difficult to censor foreign news. What is difficult today is to censor one's own thoughts, To sit by and see the blind man On the sightless horse, riding into the bottomless abyss.
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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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