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The program of our movement stems from the fundamental moral laws and order.

Lech Walesa

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Lech Walesa
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: September 29
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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 world needs leaders of vision instead of leaders on television.
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In myself I am nothing. It all comes from God and the Virgin Mary.
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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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Let the veil of silence fall presently over what happened afterwards. Silence, too, can speak out.
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The politicians always told us that the Cold War stand-off could only change by way of nuclear war. None of them believed that such systemic change was possible.
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My health is very much improved.
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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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I only fear God, and my wife - sometimes.
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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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The fall of the Berlin Wall makes for nice pictures. But it all started in the shipyards.
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I am happy that Poland is returning to the road of pluralism and democracy.
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If there were fish in the lake, fishing would make no sense.
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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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One could always do more, faster and cleverer, but democracy has its own rhythm.
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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 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 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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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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This is the moment of your defeat you have just put in the last nails in the coffin of communism.
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